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Università della Svizzera italiana

Food perceptions and dietary changes for chronic condition management in rural Peru : insights for health promotion

Perez-Leon, Silvana ; Pesantes, M. Amalia ; Aya Pastrana, Nathaly ; Raman, Shivani ; Miranda, Jaime ; Suggs, L. Suzanne

In: Nutrients, 2018, vol. 10, no. 11, p. 1563

Peru is undergoing a nutrition transition and, at the country level, it faces a double burden of disease where several different conditions require dietary changes to maintain a healthy life and prevent complications. Through semistructured interviews in rural Peru with people affected by three infectious and noninfectious chronic conditions (type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and...

Université de Fribourg

Dietary restriction and other lifespan extending pathways converge at the activation of the downstream effector takeout.

Gáliková, Martina ; Flatt, Thomas

In: Aging, 2010, vol. 2, no. 7, p. 387-389

Dietary restriction (DR), reduced food uptake without malnutrition, is the most universal intervention known to extend animal lifespan, from invertebrates to mammals [1]. However, despite impressive progress in identifying the key components of the DR pathway, many proximal effectors of DR induced longevity remain unknown to date [1]. One central obstacle in the search for such mechanisms is...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Factors influencing the life table statistics of the cassava mealybug Phenacoccus manihoti

Schulthess, F. ; Baumgärtner, J. U. ; Herren, H. R.

In: International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 1987, vol. 8, no. 4-5-6, p. 851-856