
Mediterranean Diet News We know the Mediterranean diet – rich in fish, fruits and vegetables – is good for your heart, but could it also be good for your brain? Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center report that patients who ate a Mediterranean diet suffered fewer small strokes as compared to those who ate a [...]
mag 8 2012 | Posted in
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In the study, released in the Archives of Neurology, researchers analyzed diet information on 966 people, average age 72, who answered a food questionnaire to see how close they came to consuming a Mediterranean diet. The participants also underwent magnetic resonance imaging to measure white matter hyperintensity volume. White matter hyperintensity, according to the authors, [...]
apr 15 2012 | Posted in
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La Dieta Mediterranea deve il suo successo perchè essa educa non solo ad una alimentazione sana, ma anche a comportamenti e stili di vita salutistici. News AGI) – New York, 14 mar – Nelle fasce della popolazione a basso reddito e piu’ a rischio, una forte azione contro l’obesità puo’ essere efficacemente realizzata sulla base [...]
mar 15 2012 | Posted in
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Wer sich vor allem von frischem Gemüse, Obst, Reis und Fisch ernährt, zum Kochen Olivenöl benutzt und ab und zu ein Gläschen Rotwein trinkt, senkt sein Risiko für Herz-Kreislauf-Krankheiten. Dazu zählen vor allem Bluthochdruck, Schlaganfall und Herzinfarkt. Das konnten bereits mehrere Studien beweisen. Zweifelhaft war bisher jedoch, ob dieser präventive Effekt der Mittelmeerdiät auch dann [...]
feb 16 2012 | Posted in
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Although it’s not clear why certain foods might have a protective effect, some research suggests Parkinson’s disease may be more likely to occur when cells in the body undergo a damaging process called oxidative stress. This is where harmful substances get into the body, usually through poor diet, and attack healthy cells in much the [...]
gen 29 2012 | Posted in
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LONDON | Tue Dec 9, 2008 5:57am GMT (Reuters) – Adding nuts to a traditional Mediterranean diet rich in fruit and vegetables appears to provide extra health benefits, Spanish researchers said on Monday. A daily serving of mixed nuts helped a group of older people manage their metabolic syndrome, a group of related disorders such [...]
gen 5 2012 | Posted in
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We found that development of obesity was coupled with emergence of a progressively worsening deficit in neural reward responses. Similar changes in reward homeostasis induced by cocaine or heroin are considered to be crucial in triggering the transition from casual to compulsive drug-taking. Accordingly, we detected compulsive-like feeding behavior in obese but not lean rats, [...]
gen 2 2012 | Posted in
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BACKGROUND: A dietary pattern common in regions near the Mediterranean appears to reduce risk of all-cause mortality and ischemic heart disease. Data on blacks and Hispanics in the United States are lacking, and to our knowledge only one study has examined a Mediterranean-style diet (MeDi) in relation to stroke. OBJECTIVE: In this study, we examined [...]
dic 19 2011 | Posted in
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Combinare un po’ di attività fisica con una dieta corretta, come la dieta mediterranea, può contribuire a migliorare alcuni dei sintomi dell’apnea del sonno L’apnea ostruttiva nel sonno (OSAS) colpisce molte più persone di quanto non si pensi. Spesso, poi, non si sa neanche di soffrirne; eppure è una sindrome che può avere diverse conseguenze [...]
nov 10 2011 | Posted in
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Mortality statistics from the WHO database covering the period 1960 to 1990 have provided intriguing evidence that something unusual has been affecting in a beneficial way the health of the Mediterranean population. In recent papers, which evaluated the evidence accumulated over the last three decades, it was concluded that the traditional Mediterranean diet meets several [...]