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Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice

The term sarcopenia refers to the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that generally occurs during aging. The interventions that have proved most effective in reducing the severity and preventing the worsening of sarcopenia include physical exercise, especially resistance, and the administrati...

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Autores principales: Rondanelli, Mariangela, Nichetti, Mara, Peroni, Gabriella, Faliva, Milena Anna, Naso, Maurizio, Gasparri, Clara, Perna, Simone, Oberto, Letizia, Di Paolo, Enrica, Riva, Antonella, Petrangolini, Giovanna, Guerreschi, Giulia, Tartara, Alice
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33585538
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.622391
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author Rondanelli, Mariangela
Nichetti, Mara
Peroni, Gabriella
Faliva, Milena Anna
Naso, Maurizio
Gasparri, Clara
Perna, Simone
Oberto, Letizia
Di Paolo, Enrica
Riva, Antonella
Petrangolini, Giovanna
Guerreschi, Giulia
Tartara, Alice
author_facet Rondanelli, Mariangela
Nichetti, Mara
Peroni, Gabriella
Faliva, Milena Anna
Naso, Maurizio
Gasparri, Clara
Perna, Simone
Oberto, Letizia
Di Paolo, Enrica
Riva, Antonella
Petrangolini, Giovanna
Guerreschi, Giulia
Tartara, Alice
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description The term sarcopenia refers to the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that generally occurs during aging. The interventions that have proved most effective in reducing the severity and preventing the worsening of sarcopenia include physical exercise, especially resistance, and the administration of dietary supplements in association with a targeted diet; nutritional intervention is the main therapeutic approach for elderly people, since they are very often sedentary (also due to possible disabilities). Among the various nutrients, high biological value proteins and leucine are of particular interest for their demonstrated effects on the health of skeletal muscle. The intake of food containing proteins and leucine during meals stimulates muscle protein synthesis. Lower blood levels of leucine were associated with lower values of the skeletal muscle index, grip strength and performance. The international guidelines recommended that a leucine intake of 3 g at three main meals together with 25–30 g of protein is the goal to be achieved to counteract loss of lean mass in elderly. Food composition databases rarely show the amounts of leucine contained in foods and therefore it becomes difficult to build a diet that follows these guidelines. A table was therefore created for the first time in the literature to collect all the foods richest in leucine, thanks to the union of the most important Italian food databases. Moreover, in order to implement a diet that follows the right recommendations, another tables shows nutritional composition of breakfast, lunch and dinner (that each provide 3 grams of leucine and 25 grams of protein) for seven days.
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spelling pubmed-78741062021-02-11 Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice Rondanelli, Mariangela Nichetti, Mara Peroni, Gabriella Faliva, Milena Anna Naso, Maurizio Gasparri, Clara Perna, Simone Oberto, Letizia Di Paolo, Enrica Riva, Antonella Petrangolini, Giovanna Guerreschi, Giulia Tartara, Alice Front Nutr Nutrition The term sarcopenia refers to the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that generally occurs during aging. The interventions that have proved most effective in reducing the severity and preventing the worsening of sarcopenia include physical exercise, especially resistance, and the administration of dietary supplements in association with a targeted diet; nutritional intervention is the main therapeutic approach for elderly people, since they are very often sedentary (also due to possible disabilities). Among the various nutrients, high biological value proteins and leucine are of particular interest for their demonstrated effects on the health of skeletal muscle. The intake of food containing proteins and leucine during meals stimulates muscle protein synthesis. Lower blood levels of leucine were associated with lower values of the skeletal muscle index, grip strength and performance. The international guidelines recommended that a leucine intake of 3 g at three main meals together with 25–30 g of protein is the goal to be achieved to counteract loss of lean mass in elderly. Food composition databases rarely show the amounts of leucine contained in foods and therefore it becomes difficult to build a diet that follows these guidelines. A table was therefore created for the first time in the literature to collect all the foods richest in leucine, thanks to the union of the most important Italian food databases. Moreover, in order to implement a diet that follows the right recommendations, another tables shows nutritional composition of breakfast, lunch and dinner (that each provide 3 grams of leucine and 25 grams of protein) for seven days. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7874106/ /pubmed/33585538 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.622391 Text en Copyright © 2021 Rondanelli, Nichetti, Peroni, Faliva, Naso, Gasparri, Perna, Oberto, Di Paolo, Riva, Petrangolini, Guerreschi and Tartara. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Nutrition
Rondanelli, Mariangela
Nichetti, Mara
Peroni, Gabriella
Faliva, Milena Anna
Naso, Maurizio
Gasparri, Clara
Perna, Simone
Oberto, Letizia
Di Paolo, Enrica
Riva, Antonella
Petrangolini, Giovanna
Guerreschi, Giulia
Tartara, Alice
Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title_full Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title_fullStr Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title_full_unstemmed Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title_short Where to Find Leucine in Food and How to Feed Elderly With Sarcopenia in Order to Counteract Loss of Muscle Mass: Practical Advice
title_sort where to find leucine in food and how to feed elderly with sarcopenia in order to counteract loss of muscle mass: practical advice
topic Nutrition
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33585538
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.622391
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