This book illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and particularly its impact on health and elderly care, as well as on the mechanisms of aging. Aging is a natural process of human life. The knowledge that a healthy dietary regimen like the Mediterranean diet can effectively prevent or delay many diseases typically affecting aging people may help to better manage the aging process. From this point of view, knowledge of the numerous benefits of the Mediterranean-style diet may effectively promote better management of the burden of elderly care. As early as the 1950s, Ancel Keys pointed out the effectiveness of the Mediterranean diet in helping to control, and possibly avoid, myocardial infarction and/or cholesterol metabolism. Quite soon after the first studies were published, it became clear that the Mediterranean diet was beneficial not only in connection with cardiovascular disease but also many other diseases, from diabetes to hypertension, from cancer and thrombosis to neurodegenerative diseases, including dementia. Examining those benefits in detail, this book offers a valuable educational tool for young professionals and caregivers, as well as for students and trainees in Geriatrics and Nutrition.
Have you ever eaten omelette made with boiled meat leftovers? Or pig's liver preserved in lard? Perhaps not, especially if the idea of coarse, spicy, or heavy food makes your blood run cold. Many traditional dishes now threatened with falling into oblivion seem specifically conceived to give today's dietitians and nutritionists a heart attack. And yet, armed with a little courage and due moderation, in the seamy underbelly of Tuscan cuisine we can discover a vast world of tasty and nutritious recipes handed down by a rich and centuries-long culinary culture. This book presents us with a hundred recipes for what we have playfully dubbed "rude food", teaching us how to prepare these rare and delicious dishes at home, thus avoiding the risk of an ersatz restaurant version. Originally published as: Ricette ignoranti. La Toscana in 100 pietanze "gastronomicamente scorrette" (Carlo Zella, Florence, September 2019) Reprints: September 2020, March 2022, July 2023 1st English edition: February 2024 (translation: Aelmuire Helen Cleary)
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