(1) Background: Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is responsible for a large part of many health
benefits associated to Mediterranean diet as it is a fundamental ingredient of this diet. The …

The consumption of Western-type calorically rich diets combined with chronic overnutrition
and a sedentary lifestyle in Western societies evokes a state of chronic metabolic …

Obesity is an important aspect of the metabolic syndrome and is often associated with
chronic inflammation. In this context, inflammation of organs participating in energy …

Several studies indicated how dietary patterns that were obtained from nutritional cluster
analysis can predict disease risk or mortality. Low-grade chronic inflammation represents a …

The translation of the growing increase of findings emerging from basic nutritional science
into meaningful and clinically relevant dietary advices represents nowadays one of the main …

The PREDIMED (PREvención con DIeta MEDiterránea) multicenter, randomized, primary
prevention trial assessed the long-term effects of the Mediterranean diet (MeDiet) on clinical …

Background The Seven Countries study in the 1960s showed that populations in the
Mediterranean region experienced lower coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality probably …

The purpose of the present literature review was to investigate and summarize the current
evidence on associations between dietary patterns and biomarkers of inflammation, as …

The life expectancy of the global population has increased. Aging is a natural physiological
process that poses major challenges in an increasingly long-lived and frail population …

The PREDIMED (Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea) study was designed to assess the
long-term effects of the Mediterranean diet (MeDiet) without any energy restriction on …