Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet in the Elderly Patient / Practical Issues in Geriatrics (PDF)
Aging is a natural process of human life. The knowledge that a...
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This book illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and particularly its impact on health and elderly care, as well as on the mechanisms of aging.
Aging is a natural process of human life. The knowledge that a healthy dietary regimen like the Mediterranean diet can effectively prevent or delay many diseases typically affecting aging people may help to better manage the aging process. From this point of view, knowledge of the numerous benefits of the Mediterranean-style diet may effectively promote better management of the burden of elderly care.
As early as the 1950s, Ancel Keys pointed out the effectiveness of the Mediterranean diet in helping to control, and possibly avoid, myocardial infarction and/or cholesterol metabolism. Quite soon after the first studies were published, it became clear that the Mediterranean diet was beneficial not only in connection with cardiovascular disease but also many other diseases, from diabetes tohypertension, from cancer and thrombosis to neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia.Examining those benefits in detail, this book offers a valuable educational tool for young professionals and caregivers, as well as for students and trainees in Geriatrics and Nutrition.
Professor Gaetano Crepaldi completed his degree in Medicine at the University of Padova, (Italy) and served as a fellow in haematology at the University of California in Los Angeles (USA).
In 1977, he founded and directed the Postgraduate School of Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases. He also founded the National Research Council (CNR) Center on Aging and served as Vice-President of the CNR's Biology and Medicine Committee; President of the Italian Society of Diabetology; President of the Italian Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics; and President of the Italian Society of Osteoporosis and Bone Metabolism Diseases. From 1994 to 1996, he was president of the European Association for the Study of diabetes (EASD) Study Group for Diabetic Eye Complications, and from 1996 to 2000 he was president of the Mediterranean Group for the Study of Diabetes (MGSD).
Professor Crepaldi is currently the President of the Foundation for the Study of
Cristiano Capurso graduated in medicine from the University of Bari in October 1995. He completed a specialization in geriatrics at the University of Bari in 2000 and a PhD in carcinogenesis, aging and immunoregulation at the University of Bari in 2004. Since 2002 he has served at Foggia University as an assistant professor of internal medicine and geriatrics. In 2001 he spent a period of time at the Institut für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin Klinikum at the University of Regensburg (Germany) where he carried out scientific research on DNA amplification by real-time PCR and sequencing of DNA from centenarians.
- Autoren: Antonio Capurso , Gaetano Crepaldi , Cristiano Capurso
- 2018, 1st ed. 2018, 439 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 3319780840
- ISBN-13: 9783319780849
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2018
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