The okinawan diet: A modern view of an ancestral healthy lifestyle

World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 102, Issue , 2011, Pages 114-123

  Salen, Patricia ^a   De Lorgeril, Michel ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FAT INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITION; PROTEIN INTAKE; SEA FOOD; SODIUM INTAKE; SPICE; TEA; VEGETABLE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIET; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY FATS; DIETARY PROTEINS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FLAVONOIDS; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HEALTH FOOD; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE STYLE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SEAFOOD; SODIUM, DIETARY; SPICES; TEA; VEGETABLES;

EID: 80052055417     PISSN: 00842230     EISSN: 16623975     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000327799     Document Type: Article

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