European diet and public health: The continuing challenge

Autor: W P T James, Anna Ferro Luzzi

Publikováno v: Public Health Nutrition. 4:275-292

There has been a dramatic improvement in the health of European children and adults since 1900. These improvements were remarkable in the first half of the century, with a progressive fall in the death of children and pregnant women and substantial i

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980001001549

Plasma (carotenoids, retinol, α-tocopherol) and tissue (carotenoids) levels after supplementation with β-carotene in subjects with precancerous and cancerous lesions of sigmoid colon

Autor: Mauro Serafini, Mauro Trifero, Antonio Guadalaxara, Illomei G, Anna Ferro-Luzzi, M. Salucci, Giuseppe Pappalardo, Elena Azzini, A Raguzzini, Sohrab Mobarhan, G Maiani

Publikováno v: Scopus-Elsevier

Objectives: (1) To compare tissue and plasma carotenoids status of healthy subjects and subjects with pre-cancer and cancer lesions; (2) to evaluate the effect of β-carotene supplementation on the concentrations of other carotenoids in tissue (lutei

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https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600457

Mediterranean diet, Italian-style: prototype of a healthy diet

Autor: Francesco Branca, Anna Ferro-Luzzi

Publikováno v: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 61:1338S-1345S

Since Keys' first observations in the 1960s, the Mediterranean diet has been under scrutiny by researchers and public health specialists for its health-promoting qualities. Detailed analyses of food surveys carried out in Italy at that time permitted

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https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/61.6.1338s

The Mediterranean diet revisited. Focus on fruit and vegetables

Autor: E. Toti, C. Leclercq, E. Cialfa, Anna Ferro-Luzzi

Publikováno v: International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition. 45:291-300

The interest of nutritionists and epidemiologists in Mediterranean dietary profiles derives from a large body of evidence relating them to a substantially reduced risk of cancer and of ischaemic heart disease. The aim of this paper is to describe the

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https://doi.org/10.3109/09637489409166170

Obesity and Physical Activity

Autor: Laura Martino, Anna Ferro-Luzzi

Publikováno v: Ciba Foundation Symposium 201-The Origins and Consequences of Obesity ISBN: 9780470514962
Ciba Foundation Symposium 201 - The Origins and Consequences of Obesity

This paper discusses the epidemiological evidence linking obesity to physical activity. The underlying plausible hypothesis is that the feedback from energy expenditure to appetite may be weak at low levels of physical activity and that sedentary lif

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https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470514962.ch13