Impact of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 July 2019) | Viewed by 32731
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Mediterranean diet; nutrition; epidemiology; preventive medicine; meta-analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Mediterranean diet is a healthy dietary pattern, characterized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity. The principal features of a Mediterranean diet include high consumption of unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, olive oil, legumes, moderate to high consumption of fish, wine, dairy products, and low consumption of meat. The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols, and traditions, as well as the sharing and consumption of food.
A variety of beneficial actions have been attributed to adherence to a Mediterranean diet, among them a better overall survival rate, as well as the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, depression, and dementia, among numerous others. This Special Issue welcomes original studies as well as review articles examining the pluripotent impact of adherence to the Mediterranean diet on health. Human and animal studies, epidemiological, clinical and preclinical studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses are welcome in this effort.
Dr. Theodora Psaltopoulou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Mediterranean diet
- Health
- Prevention
- Nutrition
- Lifestyle habits
- Survival