Mar 10, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
It’s time for artichokes for the nutrilipidomic recipe The artichoke, a delicious flower with a peculiar aftertaste given by cynarine (a polyphenol with which it is very rich), is a very important food for our health. In addition to being a support for liver...
Feb 28, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
The diet of modern society Modern society, largely urbanized, is characterized by a strong sedentary lifestyle and by an ubiquitous presence of poor quality food, low in nutrients, inexpensive, but highly caloric. These characteristics make the western world highly...
Feb 21, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
Let’s rediscover the ancient grains for a delicious Carnival recipe Verna wheat, whose type 1 flour was used in the recipe, is a variety of wheat of Tuscan origin, rediscovered and re-evaluated thanks to studies that have highlighted its characteristics and...
Feb 13, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
The importance of fats in our body In these first twenty years of the 21st century, fats have finally taken a revenge on all the other molecules that represent our body and diet, because their indispensability for the body health has been recognized. We cannot life...
Jan 31, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
Cell membrane lipidomics: one of the most current and important tools for the molecular health In recent decades the disciplines related to health and nutrition, thanks to molecular techniques, have made giant leaps forward. Lipidomics is one of them; it is one of the...
Jan 17, 2020 | Molecular health and nutrition
Tips for a balanced shopping cart It is now known that following a varied and balanced lifestyle is the basis of well-being and prevention. Where do you start to lead “a life in balance”? Certainly a fundamental element is nutrition.In this respect,...
Dec 20, 2019 | Molecular health and nutrition
The lipidomic dessert for the Christmas holidays We are nearby Christmas, we can allow ourselves a dessert and certainly for once we can turn a blind eye to health and squeeze the other to what we most like. However, we can enjoy a dessert that pays attention to the...
Dec 13, 2019 | Molecular health and nutrition
The irritable bowel syndrome: main features The irritable colon (IBS acronym from Irritable Bowel Syndrome) concerns disorders characterized by alterations of the function of the digestive tract accompanied by pain, abdominal swelling and alteration of defecation....
Nov 29, 2019 | Molecular health and nutrition
The microbiota-intestine-brain bond In the 4th century B.C. Hippocrates claimed that diseases originated in the intestine. Nowadays, the progress of scientific research confirms the key role of this organ and its microbiota (for further information on intestinal...
Nov 22, 2019 | Scientific News
Can obesity be “contagious”? More and more often the term epidemic or pandemic is used, referring to obesity, not only for the relevance of this phenomenon, but also to imply a contagious nature of this condition. In this regard, many authors have linked...
