[Effects of vitamin A (retinol), Tioadenolo and a standard diet on the plasma lipid pattern in the rat on an atherogenic diet].

The Authors have examined the action of large doses of vitamin A (2000 U.I./Kg diet) compared with that obtained by administration of a lipid lowering drug (Tioadenolo) and a standard diet in albino rats feed at first an atherogenic diet for 15 days.

[Nutritional surveys in some centers of 3 provinces of Sardinia. II. Nutrition and tradition].

The differences between the nutritional habits we noticed in the villages under study, concern the geographical position, the kind of agricultural or pastoral economy and industrialization. However, these are not the only decisive factors. In some villages where average income in high, tradition still influences nutritional habits, as the preference for some typical dishes suggests.

[Dietary habits of apparently healthy boys and hospitalized adults].

We required into the nutritional habits of adolescents--presumably in good health--and of hospitalized adults. We observed that caloric excesses, through equally distributed in protides, carbohydrates and lipids, might be negative factors in young people who practise no sports; taking into account that their diet was similar to the diet of that patients suffering from metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, used to eat when they were young.