The striking diet of the island of Crete: Lipid nutrition from the palaeolithic to the affluent moden society

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2002, Pages 9-14

  Furst P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID; MONOUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; OLIVE OIL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL INTAKE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART PROTECTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; NUTRIENT; NUTRITION; RELIGION; SOCIETY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES; VEGETABLE; WINE;

EID: 0036899459     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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