Mediterranean Diet: a Healthy Italian Life-Style

The History of Mediterranean Diet discovery is a chapter of the history of Mediterranean and Human civilization.
Beginning with 1947 the Rockefeller Foundation conducts post-war epidemiological
survey in the Mediterraneum; the findings published in 1953 indicate that Mediterranean populations have healthier profiles than Americans. In 1954 Ancel Keys and
colleagues confirmed relationship between dietary pattern and coronary risk factors: these preliminary studies were the premise to the Seven Countries Multivariate
Analysis of Death and Coronary Heart Disease risk factors. In 1993 the Harvard
School of Public Health released the first version of the Traditional Mediterranean
Diet Pyramid. In 1999 the Lyon’s Heart Study demonstrates protective effect of
Mediterranean Diet. November 16th, 2010: Mediterranean Diet is proclaimed by
UNESCO a World’s Heritage Part.
The efforts are nowadays focused at the study of the EBM basis of Mediterranean
Diet as a biomarker of healthy lifestyle. The goal is the development of predictive
and preventive interventions and of personalized clinical practice guidelines. Effective and friendly translational professional lifestyle strategies are expected to be
sustainable by Primary Care Doctors.
Elisa Bandera: Associate Professor, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey and
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Enzo Chilelli: General Manager of Federsanità-ANCI, Rome
A. Lino Del Favero: President of Federsanità-ANCI
Dariush Mozaffarian: Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
at Harvard Medical School - Boston
Nikolaos Scarmeas: Associate Professor of Neurology, Columbia University
Riccardo Strano: ENIT North America General Director
Francesco Maria Talò: New York Italian General Consul
Paolo Toniolo: Professor and Director, Division of Epidemiology, NY University
Guglielmo Trovato: Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Catania, Italy
Meeting Secretariat : Caterina Orlando - [email protected] +1(212)2455618
Meeting Secretariat (Italy): Francesca Torrisi and Alessia Pennisi
Multimedia, e-Learning and Health Psychology Committee and Secretariat:
G. Fabio Martines, MD, and Patrizia Pace, PhD , [email protected]
Meeting Chair: Guglielmo Trovato, M.D. —[email protected] +39 095 7435064
Mediterranean
Diet:
a Healthy
Italian Life-Style
sponsored by
Federsanità-ANCI
December 6th, 2010
Rockefeller Center
ENIT Conference Hall
New York
THE ITALIAN MEDITERRANEAN DIET PROJECT (2010-2012)
The project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Nutrition includes:
 A monograph on Mediterranean Diet, in Italian and English, focused at primary care medical doctors and dieticians and an illustrated booklet, focused at the general population.
 Professional dissemination of the State of the Art knowledge, in
Italy and in USA, through scientific seminars and conferences and
also inside the most important non-medical food-events and fairs.
 Media information through the project website, TV and newspapers.
 The goal is the development of predictive and preventive interventions and of personalized clinical practice guidelines. Effective and
friendly translational professional lifestyle strategies are expected
to be sustainable by Primary Care Doctors.
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Federsanità Anci is an institutional non-profit association with the
mission of supporting and organizing the relationship of Italian City
Mayors and the management staff of Local Public Health Institutions. The aim is to guarantee optimal pathways for the integration
of social and health welfare. The institutional mission of Federsanità
ANCI is to find, study and promote suitable and sustainable approaches useful for the health of Italian citizens. These tools include,
among others, education of the public and health care personnel
about the benefits of healthy lifestyles promotion and of the Mediterranean Diet knowledge and diffusion.
SCIENTIFIC SESSION
CHAIRMAN: GUGLIELMO M. TROVATO, UNICT
2:00
WELLCOME AND REGISTRATION
11:00
PRELIMINARY SPEAKERS’ WORKSHOP
ON
FACTS, STRATEGY, FUTURE.
CHAIRMAN: PAOLO TONIOLO, NYU
Riccardo Strano, , A. Lino Del Favero, Elisa Bandera, Nikolaos
Scarmeas, Dariush Mozaffarian, Guglielmo M. Trovato, G. Fabio
Martines, Patrizia Pace
12:30
LIGHT LUNCH - A HEALTH ITALIAN MEDITERRANEAN-STYLE MENU
EBM
3:00
CURRENT GUIDELINES FOR CANCER PREVENTION: THE ROLE OF
THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET.
Elisa Bandera
3:30
MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND NEUROSCIENCES.
Nikolaos Scarmeas
4:00
COFFEE BREAK
5:00
MEDITERRANEAN FOOD, ITALIAN STYLE CULINARY ART AND
HEALTH. CULTURE, TOURISM, GENDER, MEDIA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS.
Guglielmo M. Trovato, Riccardo Strano and other speakers
5:30
DIET AND HEALTH: A TIME FOR FOOD. AN OVERVIEW.
Dariush Mozaffarian
6:00
PRESS CONFERENCE: MEDITERRANEAN DIET AS A PERSONALIZED
THE ECONOMY.
OPEN TO PUBLIC ATTENDANCE
AN
NUTRITION, LIFESTYLE AND CANCER TRENDS IN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES.
Paolo Toniolo
MEDITERRANEAN DIET:
A RESOURCE FOR HEALTH AND MEDICINE, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
IN OTHER
2:30
AGENDA
10:00-14:00
HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF DIET IN ITALY AND
MEDITERRANEAN REGIONS. FROM TRADITION TO
PARADIGM FOR A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.
Guglielmo M. Trovato
AND MOVING TO RESTAURANT ROOM
STRATEGY FOR PREVENTION AND TREATMENT IN HEALTH AND
DISESEASE. QUESTION AND ANSWERS WITH
GUGLIELMO
TROVATO AND ALL SPEAKERS
7.30
SOCIAL DINNER (IN A MANHATTAN RESTAURANT).
A HEALTHY ITALIAN MEDITERRANEAN-STYLE MENU (FOR
VITED AND PRELIMINARILY CONFIRMED ATTENDEES) WILL
OFFERED BY ENIT.
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