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Anna Bach-Faig
Researcher at Open University of Catalonia
Publications - 37
Citations - 2775
Anna Bach-Faig is an academic researcher from Open University of Catalonia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mediterranean diet & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2066 citations. Previous affiliations of Anna Bach-Faig include University of Barcelona.
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Mediterranean diet pyramid today. Science and cultural updates
Anna Bach-Faig,Elliot M. Berry,Denis Lairon,Joan Reguant,Antonia Trichopoulou,Sandro Dernini,F. Xavier Medina,Maurizio Battino,Rekia Belahsen,Gemma Miranda,Lluis Serra-Majem +10 more
TL;DR: This review gathers updated recommendations considering the lifestyle, dietary, sociocultural, environmental and health challenges that the current Mediterranean populations are facing and contributes to a much better adherence to this healthy dietary pattern and its way of life with this new graphic representation.
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Worldwide variation of adherence to the Mediterranean diet, in 1961-1965 and 2000-2003.
Rui da Silva,Anna Bach-Faig,Blanca Raidó Quintana,Genevieve Buckland,Maria Daniel Vaz de Almeida,Lluis Serra-Majem +5 more
TL;DR: Many countries in the Mediterranean basin are drifting away from the Mediterranean dietary pattern (MDP), however, countries in Northern Europe and some other countries around the world are taking on a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern.
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Environmental footprints of Mediterranean versus Western dietary patterns: beyond the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet
TL;DR: The MDP is presented as not only a cultural model but also as a healthy and environmentally-friendly model, adherence to which, in Spain would have, a significant contribution to increasing the sustainability of food production and consumption systems in addition to the well-known benefits on public health.
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Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns
Lluis Serra-Majem,Lluis Serra-Majem,Laura Tomaino,Laura Tomaino,Sandro Dernini,Elliot M. Berry,Denis Lairon,Joy Ngo de la Cruz,Anna Bach-Faig,Lorenzo M. Donini,Francesc-Xavier Medina,Rekia Belahsen,Suzanne Piscopo,Roberto Capone,Javier Aranceta-Bartrina,Javier Aranceta-Bartrina,Javier Aranceta-Bartrina,Carlo La Vecchia,Antonia Trichopoulou +18 more
TL;DR: The new environmental dimension of the MDP enhances food intake recommendations addressing both health and environmental issues and emphasizes more strongly a lower consumption of red meat and bovine dairy products and a higher consumption of legumes and locally grown eco-friendly plant foods as much as possible.
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Mediterranean Diet and Cardiodiabesity: A Review
TL;DR: Examining all the cardiovascular risk factors combined and their relationship with adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) pattern as primary prevention against cardiodiabesity in a holistic approach provided strong evidence on the association between adherence to a MedDiet and a reduced incidence of collective cardioduabesity risk in epidemiological studies.