ReviewEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2015
Male longevity in Sardinia, a review of historical sources supporting a causal link with dietary factors.
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- Systematic review of longitudinal studies on daily health behavior and activity of daily living among older adults.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Late-Life Dietary Patterns and Subsequent Survival Among Adults Aged 90 Years or Older in the Sardinian Blue Zone.Nutrients · 2026Observational
- Associations of taste receptor gene variants with Body Mass Index (BMI) and longevity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Nutrition as a Cultural-Biological Regulator of Ageing: The Concept of Ethnonutrigerontology.Cureus · 2026Review
- Exploring the Dietary Patterns and Health Behaviours of Centenarians in Ourense (Spain): Adherence to the Southern European Atlantic Diet.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- The Cholesterol Paradox in Long-Livers from a Sardinia Longevity Hot Spot (Blue Zone).Nutrients · 2025Article
- Association between Mild Overweight and Survival: A Study of an Exceptionally Long-Lived Population in the Sardinian Blue Zone.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Food for thought: Making the case for food produced via regenerative agriculture in the battle against non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs).One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
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- Polygenic risk score and biochemical/environmental variables predict a low-risk profile of age-related macular degeneration in Sardinia.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023Article
- Changes in the oral status and periodontal pathogens in a Sardinian rural community from pre-industrial to modern time.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Analyzing Successful Aging and Longevity: Risk Factors and Health Promoters in 2020 Older Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Does the trained immune system play an important role in the extreme longevity that is seen in the Sardinian blue zone?Frontiers in aging · 2022Article
- Gender Differences among Sardinians with Alcohol Use Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Circulating fatty acids and endocannabinoidome-related mediator profiles associated to human longevity.GeroScience · 2021Article
- Mental Health and Religiosity in the Sardinian Blue Zone: Life Satisfaction and Optimism for Aging Well.Journal of religion and health · 2021Article
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- The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on fermented foods.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2021Review
- Introducing Plant-Based Mediterranean Diet as a Lifestyle Medicine Approach in Latin America: Opportunities Within the Chilean Context.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
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Abstract
The identification of a hot spot of exceptional longevity, the Longevity Blue Zone (LBZ), in the mountain population of Sardinia has aroused considerable interest toward its traditional food as one of the potential causal factors. This preliminary study on the traditional Sardinian diet has been supported by the literature available, which has been carefully reviewed and compared. Up to a short time ago, the LBZ population depended mostly upon livestock rearing, and consumption of animal-derived foods was relatively higher than in the rest of the island. The nutrition transition (NT) in urbanized and lowland areas began in the mid-1950s, fueled by economic development, whereas in the LBZ it started later owing to prolonged resistance to change by a society organized around a rather efficient pastoral economy. Even nowadays a large proportion of the population in this area still follows the traditional diet based on cereal-derived foods and dairy products. The LBZ cohorts comprising individuals who were of a mature age when NT began may have benefited both from the high-quality, albeit rather monotonous, traditional diet to which they had been exposed most of their life and from the transitional diet, which introduced positive changes such as more variety, increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and moderate meat intake. It could be speculated that these changes may have brought substantial health benefits to this particular aging group, which was in need of nutrient-rich food at this specific time in life, thereby resulting in a decreased mortality risk and, in turn, life-span extension.
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