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Mediterranean Enriched Diet for tackling Youth ObesityMED4Youth - Mediterranean Enriched Diet for tackling Youth Obesity |
Abstract
The MED4Youth project aims to demonstrate how an energy-restricted Mediterranean-style diet intervention is effective against youth obesity and reveal the mechanisms through which the Mediterranean Diet exerts the beneficial effects through a holistic omics-based system biology approach.
To do so, MED4Youth will carried out a clinical and Mediterranean Diet-based study with 240 teenagers (11-17 years old) from Italy, Portugal and Spain for 4 months. In the study, the effects of a Mediterranean Diet, including products such as sourdough bread, olive oil, pomegranate, hummus and mixed nuts, were compared with the effects of a conventional low-fat diet.
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Funding entity: PRIMA Start date: 12/2019 End date: 11/2023 Total funding: 1.500.000€ Coordinated by: Eurecat Consortium: Eurecat (Spain), Università di Parma (Italy), Shikma (Israel), Scientific Food Center (Jordan), NOVAPAN (Spain), University of Coimbra (Portugal) PI UC: Maria Filomena Botelho |
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Project website: https://med4youth.eu/ |
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