The Mediterranean diet (MD) may provide metabolic benefits but no systematic review to
date has examined its effect on a multitude of outcomes related to metabolic health. This …

Background The Seven Countries study in the 1960s showed that populations in the
Mediterranean region experienced lower coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality probably …

Background. Rapid excess weight gain and metabolic complications contribute to poor
outcomes following liver transplant care. Providing specialist lifestyle intervention with …

Background: Diet plays a major role in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Objectives: To
determine the effectiveness of a Mediterranean-style diet for the primary and secondary …

Objectives There is a trend toward an increase in body mass index (BMI) among
adolescents over the course of the year. This increase in BMI is more pronounced during …

An optimal nutritional status is associated with better post-transplant outcomes and survival.
Post-lung transplant nutrition management is however particularly challenging as lung …

Background The ideal proportion of energy from fat in our food and its relation to body
weight is not clear. In order to prevent overweight and obesity in the general population, we …

Obesity does not modulate the glycometabolic benefit of insoluble cereal fibre in subjects
with prediabetes—a stratified post hoc analysis of the Optimal Fibre Trial (OptiFiT) …

Background Understanding the quality of the diet of heart transplant recipients (HTRs) is
essential to developing effective dietary interventions for weight control, but relevant …

The distribution of adipose tissue in the lungs is intricately linked to a variety of lung
diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung …