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Mediterranean Diet In Healthy Aging

The World elderly population is expected to double before 2050. Unhealthy habits and unhealthy lifestyles are commonly associated with age-related diseases or their worsening. Modification in daily lifestyle and diet may help preventing age-related diseases onset and efficiently affecting their evol...

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Autores principales: Mazza, Elisa, Ferro, Y., Pujia, R., Mare, R., Maurotti, S., Montalcini, T., Pujia, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Paris 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8442641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34725664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12603-021-1675-6
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Sumario:The World elderly population is expected to double before 2050. Unhealthy habits and unhealthy lifestyles are commonly associated with age-related diseases or their worsening. Modification in daily lifestyle and diet may help preventing age-related diseases onset and efficiently affecting their evolution, thus promoting the Healthy Aging process, concept recently coined to describe the disease-free aging process. This review highlights the role of nutrition science in promoting healthy aging. Since the Mediterranean Model demonstrated to be a useful style in supporting healthy aging, promotion of this correct lifestyle by health policies seems to be the best approach to achieve this target.