Dietary Patterns and Cognitive Function among Older Community-Dwelling Adults. [PDF]
, 2018 Diet may be an important modifiable risk factor for maintenance of cognitive health in later life. This study aimed at examining associations between common dietary indices and dietary patterns defined by factor analysis and cognitive function in older ...
Barrett-Connor, Elizabeth +5 more
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Food consumption and civil society: Mediterranean diet as a sustainable resource for the Mediterranean area [PDF]
, 2011 Objective: To define the Mediterranean diet model inside a Mediterranean social and cultural food framework and from the perspective of a local model of consumption.
Medina Luque, Francesc Xavier
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Healthy lifestyles and body mass index as correlates of body image in primary schoolchildren [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Body image is a representation of the self that develops from an early age. Such representations are likely to be associated with lifestyle choices.Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between health ...
Calmeiro, Luis, Pereira, Carlos
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Extra virgin olive oil and cardiovascular diseases: benefits for human health [PDF]
, 2017 The cardioprotective properties of Mediterranean Diet were demonstrated for the first time from the Seven Country Study. In the last few decades, numerous epidemiological studies, as well as intervention trial, confirmed this observation, pointing out ...
Cammisotto, Vittoria +8 more
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Gut-Derived Serum Lipopolysaccharide is Associated With Enhanced Risk of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Atrial Fibrillation: Effect of Adherence to Mediterranean Diet [PDF]
, 2017 Gut microbiota is emerging as a novel risk factor for atherothrombosis, but the predictive role of gut-derived lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is unknown. We analyzed (1) the association between LPS and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in atrial ...
Cammisotto, Vittoria +8 more
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Mediterranean diet, overweight, cancer risk and sustainable benefits
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health, 2022 Carlo La Vecchia, Sandro Dernini
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022 Background and AimsA dietary pattern concordant with either the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet or the Mediterranean diet has been associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality in general population.
Jun-Sing Wang +10 more
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'Mediterranean' dietary pattern for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease [PDF]
, 2013 It is well established that diet plays a major role in cardiovascular disease risk. The traditional Mediterranean dietary pattern is of particular interest because of observations from the 1960s that populations in countries of the Mediterranean region ...
Clarke, Aileen +6 more
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Extra virgin olive oil use is associated with improved post-prandial blood glucose and LDL cholesterol in healthy subjects [PDF]
, 2015 Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is a key component of the Mediterranean diet and seems to account for the protective effect against cardiovascular disease.
ANGELICO, Francesco +10 more
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Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, Phytosterols and Cholesterol Metabolism in the Mediterranean Diet
Acta Medica, 2006 The objective of this work was to review nutritional components of the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is not a specific diet plan or diet program but a collection of eating habits that are traditionally followed by the people of the ...
Zdeněk Zadák +5 more
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