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We are What We Eat: Impact of Food from Short Supply Chain on Metabolic Syndrome
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Clinical Medicine; Volume 8; Issue 12; Pages: 2061
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Food supply in the Mediterranean area has been recently modified by big retail distribution; for instance, industrial retail has favored shipments of groceries from regions that are intensive producers of mass food, generating a long supply chain (LSC) of food that opposes short supply chains (SSCs) that promote local food markets. However, the actual functional role of food retail and distribution in the determination of the risk of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS) has not been studied hitherto. The main aim of this study was to test the effects of food chain length on the prevalence of MetS in a population accustomed to the Mediterranean diet. We conducted an observational study in Southern Italy on individuals adhering to the Mediterranean diet. We examined a total of 407 subjects (41% females) with an average age of 56 ± 14.5 years (as standard deviation) and found that being on the Mediterranean diet with a SSC significantly reduces the prevalence of MetS compared with the LSC (SSC: 19.65%, LSC: 31.46%; p: 0.007). Our data indicate for the first time that the length of food supply chain plays a key role in determining the risk of MetS in a population adhering to the Mediterranean diet.
- Subjects :
- cardiovascular risk
Mediterranean diet
Supply chain
Population
Retail distribution
Distribution (economics)
mediterranean diet
supply chain of food
metabolic syndrome
food retail
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Food chain
0302 clinical medicine
Food supply
Environmental health
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
education
2. Zero hunger
education.field_of_study
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Metabolic syndrome
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Clinical Medicine; Volume 8; Issue 12; Pages: 2061
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d6339f8c4250e20e62b13b2357944f4