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A study conducted on a sample of 47,000 Swedish women, aged between 29 and 49, seems to confirm the already known positive effects of the Mediterranean diet both on neurodegenerative pathologies, like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, and on the cognitive decline due to aging. The study is based on the association between the adoption of…
For the World Food Day 2020, celebrated every year on October 16th to commemorate the founding of the FAO (United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization), an international group of researchers (China, Israel, USA, and Canada) presented a report based on the data of the Global Burden of Disease Study of 2017, the report on the…
The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the WFP (World Food Programme), headquartered in Rome, “for its efforts to combat hunger and for acting as a driving force to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war”. Established in 1961 and UN official programme since 1965, the WFP is…
There is a strong relation between cell aging and the consumption of ultra-processed foods. This is what emerges from a study published on the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, conducted by a team of Spanish researchers of the Universities of Navarra, Pamplona and Madrid, whose results were presented at the European and International Congress on…
On May 20th, a communication called “A Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system” was published in the context of the Green Deal, the roadmap set and shared by all the States to make Europe (and its economy) the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. It addresses globally the challenges to…
A diet rich in sodium can negatively alter the intestinal microbiome. This is what emerged from a recent study, conducted on the human model, published by the Georgia Prevention Institute’s researchers in the Hypertension journal. The intestinal microbiota is composed of bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and fungus which inhabit the gastrointestinal tract: they have several functions,…
With summer comes the usual health advice to drink a lot of water to stay hydrated. Although it seems a cliché that we repeatedly hear every year, it is a wise recommendation: water is indeed a precious good, essential for life and to stay healthy not only in summer but all year round. It is…
Vegetarian or vegan diet? The beneficial effects of those two types of diet are a present matter of debate, both in the scientific community and in the non-specialised information channels like magazines, newspapers, and television programs. In most cases, the main matter of debate is the comparison between the effects on health of this type…
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