Over the last decades, a considerable body of evidence supported the hypothesis that diet
and dietary factors play a relevant role in the occurrence of diseases. To date, all the major …

When antioxidant defenses are weakened, body cells and tissues become more prone to
develop dysfunction and/or disease. Then, the maintenance of adequate antioxidant levels …

ObjectiveTo ascertain the prevalence of and association between main lifestyle factors (diet,
physical activity, alcohol consumption and smoking) in students from the Balearic Islands …

Background: Red yeast rice is an herbal supplement that decreases low-density lipoprotein
(LDL) cholesterol level. Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness and tolerability of red yeast …

Health-related lifestyles in young adults are a public health concern because they affect the
risk for developing noncommunicable diseases. Although unhealthy lifestyles tend to cluster …

Aging is a complex process. It is considered a risk factor for several diseases such as
cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes, most of which …

Background Changes in population diet are likely to reduce cardiovascular disease and
cancer, but the effect of dietary advice is uncertain. This review is an update of a previous …

Health-promoting effects of the Mediterranean diet have been in focus for decades, whereas
less interest has been given to existing healthy dietary habits within other Western cultures …

Results: After adjustment for age, BMI, diabetes in the family, weight gain and energy intake,
subjects with GDM, by either criterion, had lower MDI (ADA_2010, 5.8 vs 6.3, P= 0.028; …

Abstract The Seven Countries Study of Cardiovascular Diseases was started at the end of
the 1950s and it continues to be run after> 50 years. It enrolled, at entry, 16 population …