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    • The effects of obesity and diet on prostate cancer risk 

      Melekos, M. D.; Mitsogiannis, I. C. (2003)
      Prostate cancer is nowadays the most common malignancy in males of the western world, but little is as yet known regarding the causes of initiation and progression of this disease. To explain the geographical variations ...
    • Effects of protease addition and replacement of soybean meal by corn gluten meal on the growth of broilers and on the environmental performances of a broiler production system in Greece 

      Giannenas I., Bonos E., Anestis V., Filioussis G., Papanastasiou D.K., Bartzanas T., Papaioannou N., Tzora A., Skoufos I. (2017)
      An experimental study was conducted to examine the combined effects of adding a dietary protease, reducing the levels of soybean meal (SBM) and introducing corn gluten meal (CGM) in the ration of a group of broilers reared ...
    • Electronic recording of lifetime locomotory activity patterns of adult medflies 

      Rodovitis V.G., Papanastasiou S.A., Bataka E.P., Nakas C.T., Koulousis N.A., Carey J.R., Papadopoulos N.T. (2022)
      Age-specific and diurnal patterns of locomotory activity, can be considered as biomarkers of aging in model organisms and vary across the lifetime of individuals. Τhe Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, ...
    • Estimated Reductions in Added Sugar Intake among US Children and Youth in Response to Sugar Reduction Targets 

      Vercammen K.A., Dowling E.A., Sharkey A.L., Johnson Curtis C., Wang J., Kenney E.L., Micha R., Mozaffarian D., Moran A.J. (2022)
      Background: In 2021, the National Salt and Sugar Reduction Initiative (NSSRI) released voluntary sugar reduction targets for packaged foods and drinks in the United States. Objective: The objectives of this study were to ...
    • Evaluating the efficacy of the feeding exercise randomized trial in overweight and obese adolescents 

      Patsopoulou A., Tsimtsiou Z., Katsioulis A., Malissiova E., Rachiotis G., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2017)
      Background: The Feeding Exercise Trial in Adolescents (FETA) aimed to evaluate whether a community-based, parents-involving, combined physical activity and nutritional education program was effective in improving adiposity ...
    • Evaluation of in-feed larch sawdust anti-inflammatory effect in sows 

      Tzika E.D., Tassis P.D., Papatsiros V.G., Pferschy-Wenzig E.M., Siochu A., Bauer R., Alexopoulos C., Kyriakis S.C., Franz C. (2017)
      The study aimed to investigate the possible anti-inflammatory activity of larch sawdust as feed supplement in lactating sows' diet and its possible effect on the prevalence of Postpartum Dysgalactia Syndrome under field ...
    • Evaluation of nitrogen excretion equations for ryegrass pasture-fed dairy cows 

      Christodoulou C., Moorby J.M., Tsiplakou E., Kantas D., Foskolos A. (2021)
      Accurate and precise estimates of nitrogen (N) excretion in faeces and urine of dairy cattle may provide direct tools to improve N management and thus, to mitigate environmental pollution from dairy production. Empirical ...
    • Feed supplemented with polyphenolic byproduct from olive mill wastewater processing improves the redox status in blood and tissues of piglets 

      Gerasopoulos K., Stagos D., Petrotos K., Kokkas S., Kantas D., Goulas P., Kouretas D. (2015)
      In the present study, a polyphenolic byproduct from olive mill wastewater (OMWW) was used for making piglet feed with antioxidant activity. For examining the antioxidant capacity of the feed, 30 piglets of 20 d old were ...
    • Food Consumption and Frailty Syndrome: Results From the Hellenic Longitudinal Investigation of Aging and Diet Study 

      Ntanasi E., Scarmeas N., Mamalaki E., Kosmidis M.-H., Anastasiou C.A., Dardiotis E., Hadjigeorgiou G., Megalou M., Voskou P., Sakka P., Yannakoulia M. (2019)
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    • Global, regional, and national consumption of animal-source foods between 1990 and 2018: findings from the Global Dietary Database 

      Miller V., Reedy J., Cudhea F., Zhang J., Shi P., Erndt-Marino J., Coates J., Micha R., Webb P., Mozaffarian D., Abbott P., Abdollahi M., Abedi P., Abumweis S., Adair L., Al Nsour M., Al-Daghri N., Al-Hamad N., Al-Hooti S., Al-Zenki S., Alam I., Ali J.H., Alissa E., Anderson S., Anzid K., Arambepola C., Arici M., Arsenault J., Asciak R., Barbieri H.E., Barengo N., Barquera S., Bas M., Becker W., Beer-Borst S., Bergman P., Biró L., Boindala S., Bovet P., Bradshaw D., Bukhary N.B., Bundhamcharoen K., Caballero M., Calleja N., Cao X., Capanzana M., Carmikle J., Castetbon K., Castro M., Cerdena C., Chang H.-Y., Charlton K., Chen Y., Chen M.F., Chiplonkar S., Cho Y., Chuah K.-A., Costanzo S., Cowan M., Damasceno A., Dastgiri S., De Henauw S., DeRidder K., Ding E., Dommarco R., Don R., Duante C., Duleva V., Duran Aguero S., Ekbote V., El Ati J., El Hamdouchi A., El-kour T., Eldridge A., Elmadfa I., Esteghamati A., Etemad Z., Fadzil F., Farzadfar F., Fernandez A., Fernando D., Fisberg R., Forsyth S., Gamboa-Delgado E., Garriguet D., Gaspoz J.-M., Gauci D., Geleijnse M., Ginnela B., Grosso G., Guessous I., Gulliford M., Gunnarsdottir I., Hadden W., Hadziomeragic A., Haerpfer C., Hakeem R., Haque A., Hashemian M., Hemalatha R., Henjum S., Hinkov H., Hjdaud Z., Hoffman D., Hopping B., Houshiar-rad A., Hsieh Y.-T., Hung S.-Y., Huybrechts I., Hwalla N.C., Ibrahim H.M., Ikeda N., Illescas-Zarate D., Inoue M., Janakiram C., Jayawardena R., Jeewon R., Jitnarin N., Johansson L., Jonsdottir O., Jundishapur A., Kally O., Kandiah M., Karupaiah T., Keinan-Boker L., Kelishadi R., Khadilkar A., Kim C.-I., Koksal E., Konig J., Korkalo L., Koster J., Kovalskys I., Krishnan A., Kruger H., Kuriyan-Raj R., Kweon S., Lachat C., Lai Y., Lanerolle P., Laxmaiah A., Leclercq C., Lee M.-S., Lee H.-J., Lemming E.W., Li Y., Lindström J., Ling A., Liputo N.I., Lopez-Jaramillo P., Luke A., Lukito W., Lupotto E., Ma Y., Mahdy Z.A., Malekzadeh R., Manan W., Marchioni D., Marques L.L., Marques-Vidal P., Martin-Prevel Y., Mathee A., Matsumura Y., Mazumdar P., Memon A., Mensink G., Meyer A., Mirmiran P., Mirzaei M., Misra P., Misra A., Mitchell C., Mohamed H.J., Mohammadi-Nasrabadi F., Mohammadifard N., Moy F.M., Musaiger A., Mwaniki E., Myhre J., Nagalla B., Naska A., Ng S.A., Ng S.W., Ngoan L.T., Noshad S., Ochoa A., Ocke M., Odenkirk J., Oh K., Oleas M., Olivares S., Orfanos P., Ortiz-Ulloa J., Otero J., Ovaskainen M.-L., Pakseresht M., Palacios C., Palmer P., Pan W.-H., Panagiotakos D., Parajuli R., Park M., Pekcan G., Petrova S., Piaseu N., Pitsavos C., Polasa K., Posada L., Pourfarzi F., Preston A.M., Rached I., Rahbar A.R., Rehm C., Richter A., Riley L., Salanave B., Sánchez-Romero L.M., Sarrafzadegan N., Sawada N., Sekiyama M., Selamat R., Shamsuddin K., Shariff Z.M., Sharma S., Sibai A.M., Sinkko H., Sioen I., Sisa I., Skeaff S., Steingrimsdottir L., Strand T., Suarez-Ortegon M.F., Swaminathan S., Swan G., Sygnowska E., Szabo M., Szponar L., Tan-Khouw I., Tapanainen H., Tayyem R., Tedla B., Tedstone A., Templeton R., Termote C., Thanopoulou A., Thorgeirsdottir H., Thorsdottir I., Trichopoulos D., Trichopoulou A., Tsugane S., Turrini A., van Oosterhout C., Vartiainen E., Veerman J.L., Virtanen S., Vollenweider P., Vossenaar M., Waidyatilaka I., Waskiewicz A., Waterham E., Wieler L., Wondwossen T., Wu S., Yaakub R., Yap M., Yusof S., Zaghloul S., Zajkás G., Zapata M., Zarina K., Zohoori F.V., Global Dietary Database (2022)
      Background: Diet is a major modifiable risk factor for human health and overall consumption patterns affect planetary health. We aimed to quantify global, regional, and national consumption levels of animal-source foods ...
    • Grape pomace improves antioxidant capacity and faecal microflora of lambs 

      Kafantaris I., Kotsampasi B., Christodoulou V., Kokka E., Kouka P., Terzopoulou Z., Gerasopoulos K., Stagos D., Mitsagga C., Giavasis I., Makri S., Petrotos K., Kouretas D. (2017)
      Grape pomace is a by-product of winemaking process and rich in bioactive compounds such as plant polyphenols having antioxidant and antimicrobial activities. As known, oxidative stress may cause a number of pathological ...
    • Grape pomace improves performance, antioxidant status, fecal microbiota and meat quality of piglets 

      Kafantaris I., Stagos D., Kotsampasi B., Hatzis A., Kypriotakis A., Gerasopoulos K., Makri S., Goutzourelas N., Mitsagga C., Giavasis I., Petrotos K., Kokkas S., Goulas P., Christodoulou V., Kouretas D. (2018)
      In the present study, grape pomace (GP) was used as feed additive in the diet of weaned piglets in order to develop innovative feedstuffs and to investigate their potential beneficial effects on welfare, productivity and ...
    • Gut bacteria associated with different diets in reared Nephrops norvegicus 

      Meziti, A.; Mente, E.; Kormas, K. A. (2012)
      The impact of different diets on the gut microbiota of reared Nephrops norvegicus was investigated based on bacterial 16S rRNA gene diversity. Specimens were collected from Pagasitikos Gulf (Greece) and kept in experimental ...
    • Gut Microbiota of Five Sympatrically Farmed Marine Fish Species in the Aegean Sea 

      Nikouli E., Meziti A., Smeti E., Antonopoulou E., Mente E., Kormas K.A. (2021)
      In this study, we hypothesized that sympatrically grown farmed fish, i.e. fish which experience similar environmental conditions and nutritionally similar diets, would have more convergent gut microbiota. Using a “common ...
    • Hippocrates' counselling with regard to physical exercise, gymnastics, dietetics and health 

      Kritikos, A.; Bekiari, A.; Nikitaras, N.; Famissis, K.; Sakellariou, K. (2009)
      The aim of this study is the investigation of Hippocrates' consultative theory with regard to man's physical exercise, gymnastics, diet and health, on the basis of his work "Regimen" and his other works. The aforementioned ...
    • Imprinting statistically sound conclusions for gut microbiota in comparative animal studies: A case study with diet and teleost fishes 

      Panteli N., Mastoraki M., Nikouli E., Lazarina M., Antonopoulou E., Kormas K.A. (2020)
      Despite the technical progress in high-throughput sequencing technologies, defining the sample size which is capable of yielding representative inferences in metabarcoding analysis still remains debatable. The present study ...
    • Is it scientifically justifiable to exclude wine and/or unfermented grape derivatives from the diet of consumers with or at risk of developing type-2 diabetes? 

      Restani P., Di Lorenzo C., Fradera U., Stockley C.S., Teissedre P.-L., Ruf J.-C., Iasiello B., Biella S., Colombo F., Kosti R.I. (2020)
      The abuse of alcoholic beverages has been associated with an increased risk of chronic-degenerative diseases, including diabetes mellitus, so that there is a general diffidence towards the low/moderate consumption of wine ...
    • Lifestyle changes and determinants of children’s and adolescents’ body weight increase during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Greece: The COV-EAT study 

      Androutsos O., Perperidi M., Georgiou C., Chouliaras G. (2021)
      Previous studies showed that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown imposed changes in adults’ lifestyle behaviors; however, there is limited information regarding the effects on youth. The COV-EAT study aimed ...
    • Low fodmap diet for functional gastrointestinal symptoms in quiescent inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials 

      Grammatikopoulou M.G., Goulis D.G., Gkiouras K., Nigdelis M.P., Papageorgiou S.T., Papamitsou T., Forbes A., Bogdanos D.P. (2020)
      A low FODMAP diet (LFD) has been hypothesized to relieve symptoms of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGD) in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of the study was to systematically review the ...
    • A low-protein, high-carbohydrate diet increases browning in perirenal adipose tissue but not in inguinal adipose tissue 

      Pereira M.P., Ferreira L.A.A., da Silva F.H.S., Christoffolete M.A., Metsios G.S., Chaves V.E., de França S.A., Damazo A.S., Flouris A.D., Kawashita N.H. (2017)
      Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the browning and origin of fatty acids (FAs) in the maintenance of triacylglycerol (TG) storage and/or as fuel for thermogenesis in perirenal adipose tissue (periWAT) and ...