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sovrappeso e diminuzione ormoni
14/10/2007
il sovrappeso diminuisce gli ormoni ed aumenta il deposito di grasso in quanto provoca la produzione di sostanze che agiscono a livello delle ghiandole che sono preposte alla stimolazione degli ormoni ipotalamo ed ipofisi provocando un rallentamento della risposta ormonale maggiore di quello che ci aspetterebbe con il normale invecchiamento continua la lettura

neurotrasmettitori che regolano la fame
09/09/2007
Ci sono neurotrasmettitori prodotti sia a livello celebrale che addominale in seguito al pasto. continua la lettura

meccanismi neurologici della fame compulsiva
02/09/2007
un numero sempre più rilevante di evidenze scentifiche dimostrano che i meccanismi che correlano l'abuso di droghe e la fame compulsiva utilizzano in parte gli stessi circuiti cerebrali continua la lettura

Making sense of Guideline Daily Amounts
07/08/2007
You may have noticed the term Guideline Daily Amounts or GDAs mentioned on food labels, but what does it mean? Guideline Daily Amounts are a guide to the total amount of energy and nutrients that a typical healthy adult should be eating in a day. continua la lettura

Home Food Safety & Quality
06/08/2007
Today's lifestyles are vastly different from those of the past. The fast pace of modern lifestyles and the increase in single-person households, one-parent families and working women have lead to changes in the food preparation and consumption habits. A positive outcome of this has been rapid advances in food technology, processing and packaging techniques to help ensure the safety and wholesomeness of the food supply as more convenient food. In spite of these advances, contamination of the food supply by either naturally occurring or accidentally introduced contaminants or malpractice does occur. Ultimately, the quality and safety of food depends on the efforts of everyone involved in the complex chain of agriculture production, processing, transport, food production and consumption. As the EU and the World Health Organisation (WHO) put it succinctly - food safety is a shared responsibility from farm to fork. Maintaining the quality and safety of food throughout the food chain requires both operating procedures to ensure the wholesomeness of food and monitoring procedures to ensure operations are carried out as intended. continua la lettura