2010 - Dr. MASSIMO SPATTINI

ACEROLA: the Barbados Cherry

4 October 2010

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New Parma / september-october 2009 Let’s continue on our journey among the ‘super foods’. After discovering the Açai’s potential in the last issue of New Parma, we now look at the characteristics of a fruit which has one of the highest quantities of vitamin C, as well as many other nutrients: Acerola, also has a

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ACAI: the health fruit

4 September 2010

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New Parma / may-june 2009 It is called Açai (botanical name: Euterpe Oleracea) and comes directly from Parà, in the northern side of the Amazon Rainforest (Brazil), the only place where it grows spontaneously – the reason why these palm trees do not produce fruits somewhere else is still a mystery. The Açai is the

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THE PALEODIET

4 September 2010

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The palaeodiet is a new diet but it is actually the most ancient diet in the world. In fact, it is the diet primitive cavemen followed in the age before the discovery of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. For about two million years man had been a hunter-gatherer and he survived thanks to the food

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THE POWER OF FATTY ACID

4 July 2010

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NEW PARMA / march-april 2009 In our present society we do not make enough use of food with large amounts of omega-3. Some omega-3 fatty acids are present above all in seeds and plants typical of cold climates, in the green part of vegetables (linolenic acid) and in meat. They can also be found in

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FOOD ALLERGIES

4 July 2010

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New Parma / november-december 2009 “…I believe every doctor should have a thorough knowledge of nature. He should strive to understand – if he wants to do his duty –the relationship between man and food and beverages, and his activities, and the effects that each one of these things has on us.” (HIPPOCRATES) These words

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