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Nutritional habits and lifestyle in a population of cancer patients in the south of Italy

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Submitted   Aug 25, 2019
Published   Aug 30, 2019
Issue    Vol 2 No 2 (2019)
DOI   10.25082/AHB.2019.02.002

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Rita Mauro
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Maria Capellupo
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Gianluca Raffaele
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy & Pugliese Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Nicola Pelle
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Antonio Gallucci
ASP Catanzaro Hospital, 88046 Lamezia Terme (Catanzaro), Italy
Stefano Molica
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Rosanna Mirabelli
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Antonio Mole
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy
Francesco Talarico corresponding author
Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy & De Lellis Hospital, 88100 Catanzaro, Italy

Abstract

The research involved a sample of 150 patients with a diagnosis of cancer, with the aim of assessing food habits and lifestyle. Smoking, physical activity and diet have been observed so as to seek for possible correlation with cancer. Patients involved had different types of cancer: data regarding correlation between diet and gastrointestinal cancer have been specifically assessed. Surprisingly, most patients, who declared to follow Mediterranean diet, instead, by actually analysing type and quantities of specific food , followed a different pattern. Therefore, in a population of South of Italy, one of the places which gave birth to Mediterranean diet, the protective effect of this kind of diet against many diseases is now at risk. Furthermore, a statistically significant correlation between nutritional pattern and gastrointestinal cancer has been found.

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prevention, nutrition, Mediterranean diet

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Mauro, R., Capellupo, M., Raffaele, G., Pelle, N., Gallucci, A., Molica, S., Mirabelli, R., Mole, A., & Talarico, F. (2019). Nutritional habits and lifestyle in a population of cancer patients in the south of Italy. Advances in Health and Behavior, 2(2), 79-84. https://doi.org/10.25082/AHB.2019.02.002
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