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Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects

BACKGROUND: Populations living in the area of the Mediterranean Sea suffered by decreased incidence of cancer compared with those living in the regions of northern Europe and US countries, attributed to healthier dietary habits. Nowadays, we are assisting to a moving away from the traditional Medite...

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Autores principales: Grosso, Giuseppe, Buscemi, Silvio, Galvano, Fabio, Mistretta, Antonio, Marventano, Stefano, Vela, Vanessa La, Drago, Filippo, Gangi, Santi, Basile, Francesco, Biondi, Antonio
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24267672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S14
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author Grosso, Giuseppe
Buscemi, Silvio
Galvano, Fabio
Mistretta, Antonio
Marventano, Stefano
Vela, Vanessa La
Drago, Filippo
Gangi, Santi
Basile, Francesco
Biondi, Antonio
author_facet Grosso, Giuseppe
Buscemi, Silvio
Galvano, Fabio
Mistretta, Antonio
Marventano, Stefano
Vela, Vanessa La
Drago, Filippo
Gangi, Santi
Basile, Francesco
Biondi, Antonio
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description BACKGROUND: Populations living in the area of the Mediterranean Sea suffered by decreased incidence of cancer compared with those living in the regions of northern Europe and US countries, attributed to healthier dietary habits. Nowadays, we are assisting to a moving away from the traditional Mediterranean dietary pattern, but whether this changing is influencing risk of cancers is still unclear. The aim of the study was to review recent evidence on potential relationship between the adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cancer. DISCUSSION: The most recent pooled analyses of epidemiological studies supported strongly the hypothesis that the Mediterranean diet may play a role in preventing several types of cancers, especially those of digestive tract, whereas contrasting results were reported for hormone-dependent cancers. Specific aspects of the Mediterranean diet such as high fruit and vegetables and low red processed meat intake may explain such protective effects. Moreover, evidence regarding olive oil and whole grains increase the beneficial effects of such dietary pattern against cancer. CONCLUSIONS: Literature evidence actually demonstrates that the increased adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern is beneficial to health across populations and may translate a protective effect with certain cancers.
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spelling pubmed-38509912013-12-13 Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects Grosso, Giuseppe Buscemi, Silvio Galvano, Fabio Mistretta, Antonio Marventano, Stefano Vela, Vanessa La Drago, Filippo Gangi, Santi Basile, Francesco Biondi, Antonio BMC Surg Research Article BACKGROUND: Populations living in the area of the Mediterranean Sea suffered by decreased incidence of cancer compared with those living in the regions of northern Europe and US countries, attributed to healthier dietary habits. Nowadays, we are assisting to a moving away from the traditional Mediterranean dietary pattern, but whether this changing is influencing risk of cancers is still unclear. The aim of the study was to review recent evidence on potential relationship between the adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cancer. DISCUSSION: The most recent pooled analyses of epidemiological studies supported strongly the hypothesis that the Mediterranean diet may play a role in preventing several types of cancers, especially those of digestive tract, whereas contrasting results were reported for hormone-dependent cancers. Specific aspects of the Mediterranean diet such as high fruit and vegetables and low red processed meat intake may explain such protective effects. Moreover, evidence regarding olive oil and whole grains increase the beneficial effects of such dietary pattern against cancer. CONCLUSIONS: Literature evidence actually demonstrates that the increased adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern is beneficial to health across populations and may translate a protective effect with certain cancers. BioMed Central 2013-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3850991/ /pubmed/24267672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S14 Text en Copyright © 2013 Grosso et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grosso, Giuseppe
Buscemi, Silvio
Galvano, Fabio
Mistretta, Antonio
Marventano, Stefano
Vela, Vanessa La
Drago, Filippo
Gangi, Santi
Basile, Francesco
Biondi, Antonio
Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects
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title_full Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects
title_fullStr Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects
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title_short Mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects
title_sort mediterranean diet and cancer: epidemiological evidence and mechanism of selected aspects
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3850991/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24267672
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-13-S2-S14
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