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Scuole che promuovono salute (Sps) is a model promoted by the World Health Organization and recognized at the European and national levels for promoting health and well-being at school. Pause Attive is an effective and evidence-based intervention to promote physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour of children in the school setting. In the 2023-2024 school year, 348 schools joined the "Rete Lazio Sps" of which 99 joined the intervention Pause Attive for a total of 1.

Time to define food salt targets in Italy starting with cereal-based products: A safe and practical way to reduce the heavy burden of cardiovascular disease.

Background And Aims: Excess salt intake is the leading dietary risk factor for cardiovascular disease in most countries, including Italy. While the cost-effectiveness of interventions aimed to reduce salt intake has been proved, the WHO recommendation to reduce salt intake by 30 % at the global level by 2025 is far from being reached.

Methods And Results: In Italy, two surveys of the general adult population have established that the average salt intake is still almost twice the WHO recommendation although it was reduced by 1.

The hesitancy in the nutritional prevention.

Our letter discusses the concept of 'Nutritional Prevention Hesitancy', comparing it to the well-studied phenomenon of 'Vaccine Hesitancy'. Both hesitancies can be fueled by 'infodemics', the rapid spread of accurate and inaccurate information that can lead to public confusion and mistrust in authoritative sources. Drawing parallels between the two, the text highlights that nutritional prevention hesitancy can result in individuals not adopting evidence-based nutritional strategies, potentially leading to poorer health outcomes.

The "Nutritional Prevention" within Italy's National Prevention Plan 2020-25.

Italy's National Prevention Plan 2020-25 is the first to address nutritional prevention, highlighting its importance in combating chronic diseases. This letter discusses the relationship between food safety, nutritional security, and the need for nutritional prevention in the plan. Chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes, are significant public health concerns in Italy, with poor nutrition being a critical risk factor.

[Project of contrast to avoidable mortality in a metropolitan local health authority].

Introduction: The avoidable mortality (ME)represents the share of deaths that occurs at an early age (0-74 aa) for causes that cannot be faced by means of public health or health care measures. The work develops a strategic intervention plan aimed at the reduction of ME by identifying local priority actions based on epidemiologic and social-health data.

Methods: a working group among the Department of Prevention, Health Information Systems and Health District was set up.

Salt and Health: Survey on Knowledge and Salt Intake Related Behaviour in Italy.

Background And Aim: Excess sodium intake is a recognised causal factor of hypertension and its cardiovascular complications; there is however a lack of practical instruments to assess and monitor the level of knowledge and behaviour about dietary salt intake and to relate these factors to the population general dietary habits.

Methods And Results: A self-administered questionnaire was developed to assess the salt and health related knowledge and behaviour of the Italian population through an online survey. A sample of 11,618 Italian participants completed the questionnaire.

Dietary assessment methods in surveillance systems targeted to adolescents: A review of the literature.

Aims: The present paper aims to identify ongoing multinational surveillance systems (SURSYSs) assessing diet and nutrition targeted to adolescents, including European surveys involving multiple countries and similar initiatives conducted in non-European countries with developed economies, and to describe the dietary assessment methods used.

Data Synthesis: A total of 13 SURSYSs conducted in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were identified. Dietary assessment methods commonly used include 24-h recalls (24H-Rs) and questionnaires or interviews.

Diet and primary prevention of stroke: Systematic review and dietary recommendations by the ad hoc Working Group of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition.

Background And Aims: To systematically review the latest evidence on established and emerging nutrition-related risk factors for incidence of and mortality from total, ischemic and haemorrhagic strokes. The present review was conducted in the framework of the work carried out through 2015 and 2016 for the preparation of the Italian Guidelines for the Prevention and Treatment of Stroke, 8th Edition, by ISO-SPREAD (Italian Stroke Organization and the Stroke Prevention and Educational Awareness Diffusion).

Methods And Results: Systematic review of articles focused on primary prevention of stroke published between January 2013 to May 2016 through an extensive search of the literature using MEDLINE/PUBMED, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library.

The Domains of Human Nutrition: The Importance of Nutrition Education in Academia and Medical Schools.

Human nutrition encompasses an extremely broad range of medical, social, commercial, and ethical domains and thus represents a wide, interdisciplinary scientific and cultural discipline. The high prevalence of both disease-related malnutrition and overweight/obesity represents an important risk factor for disease burden and mortality worldwide. It is the opinion of Federation of the Italian Nutrition Societies (FeSIN) that these two sides of the same coin, with their sociocultural background, are related to a low "nutritional culture" secondary, at least in part, to an insufficient academic training for health-care professionals (HCPs).

Dietary habits among children aged 8-9 years in Italy.

Objective: To describe dietary habits and related geographic and socio-demographic characteristics among children aged 8-9 years in Italy.

Materials And Methods: Data from the 2012 national nutritional surveillance system collected from children, parents and teachers, have been linked to determine the children's eating habits. Logistic regression analyses were used to investigate the association between incorrect dietary habits and their potential predictors.

From surveillance to development of nutritional guidelines.

In Italy, like in most parts of the world, 30% of children and almost 50% of adults are overweight. This condition is one of the causes of non-communicable diseases responsible for over two thirds of DALYs, deaths and costs for healthcare. Current surveys confirm that overweight and obesity are associated with food habits which have changed, in Italy, in the last fifty years.

Recommending salt intake reduction to the hypertensive patient: more than just lip service.

The average individual dietary salt intake largely exceeds the physiological needs almost worldwide. A direct causal association between salt intake and blood pressure levels has been clearly established. Furthermore, there is increasing evidence for additional blood pressure-independent pathways linking excess salt intake to the process of atherosclerosis.

Population based strategy for dietary salt intake reduction: Italian initiatives in the European framework.

Excess dietary sodium chloride (salt) intake is etiologically related to hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Moderate reduction of salt intake reduces blood pressure (BP) and is expected to contribute to reduce the risk of CVD. Previous community-based trials to reduce BP by means of salt reduction were very successful.

[Obesity and Eating Disorders. Indications for the different levels of care. An Italian Expert Consensus Document].

This paper is an Italian Expert Consensus Document on multidimensional treatment of obesity and eating disorders. The Document is based on a wide survey of expert opinion. It presents, in particular, considerations regarding how clinicians go about choosing the most appropriate site of treatment for a given patient suffering from obesity and/or eating disorders: outpatient, partial hospitalization, residential rehabilitation centre, inpatient hospitalization.

Dietary intake and physical activity of normal weight and overweight/obese adolescents.

Purpose. To evaluate the relationship between overweight/obesity and dietary/lifestyle factors among Italian adolescents. Methods.

Excess body weight and incidence of stroke: meta-analysis of prospective studies with 2 million participants.

Background And Purpose: A systematic review of the prospective studies addressing the relationship of overweight and obesity to major stroke subtypes is lacking. We evaluated the occurrence of a graded association between overweight, obesity, and incidence of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke by a meta-analysis of cohort studies.

Methods: A search of online databases and relevant reviews was performed.

[The plan for prevention of obesity of ASL RMB, Italy].

Lazio District, by pointing out the guidelines of the "Obesity and Overweight for Lazio District Plan" (DGR no1166, 23/12/05), enacts the "National Prevention Plan 2005-2007". The Public Health Service for Food and Nutrition has been the main player of the Plan; the District and Department of Health of the District had a technical and organizational support role. Within the development of the Plan for prevention of obesity of ASL RMB, a technical multidisciplinary group was constituted and three more programs were developed, all of them were dedicated to promotion and support of breast-feeding, prevention of obesity and overweight in childhood and adulthood.

Is antioxidant and n-3 supplementation able to improve functional status in poststroke patients? Results from the Nutristroke Trial.

Background: To test whether supplementary antioxidants and n-3 fatty acids, alone or in combination, could improve functional status in stroke survivors.

Methods: We performed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial in 72 stroke patients (47 males; age 65.3 +/- 12.

[Overweight and obesity in Italian children aged 6-11 years].

The objective of this study is to obtain reliable data from recent surveys carried out in Italy on the prevalence of overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) in children. We searched in MEDLINE/PubMed, Google and Google Scholar and we included the surveys that fulfilled the following criteria: English or Italian language, time period January 2000-April 2008, target of 6-11 years; BMI evaluated according to IOFT cut-offpoints. Search terms included overweight, obesity, children, Italy, associated with AND/OR.

[Testing a nutritional and taste education intervention approach to increase vegetables and fruit consumption among children].

The purpose of the study was to test a nutrition education intervention to promote a higher consumption of vegetables, pulse and fruit among children. The study involved 274 children of primary school (third and fourth grade). The sample was divided in three groups: A (exposed to intervention without taste education activities), B (exposed to intervention with taste education activities), C (control group not exposed to any intervention).

[Elevated blood pressure in adolescents from Rome, Italy. Nutritional risk factors and physical activity].

Aim of the study was to detect the prevalence of hypertension among 11-14 years old schoolchildren (n. 487, mean age 12.7 +/- 0.

[Smoking cessation and weight gain].

Cigarette smoking is the single most important preventable cause of death and illness. Smoking cessation is associated with substantial health benefits, but weight gain after smoking cessation is perceived to be a barrier against quitting smoking. The aim of the study was to analyse predictors of weight gain after smoking cessation.

[Increase of hypertension among adolescents in Rome].

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of overweight/obese and hypertensive roman adolescents belonging to a medium-low social environment. The purpose of this research was also to find out the correlations between high blood pressure and obesity, dietary habits and physical activity.

Methods: Nutritional status of 474 subjects (age 12.

[Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and nutritional risk in elderly. A proposal of nutritional surveillance system for the Department of Public Health].

Objective of the study is to present an intervention model to evaluate nutritional risk of institutionalised elderly, suitably with the aims and resources of the Hygiene of Nutrition Services, and to individuate predictive variables of nutritional vulnerability. 237 subjects from the residential homes of ASL RMB were involved in the study; to each subject was administered: a) the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA); b) a questionnaire for the analysis of the risk factors. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to evaluate the influence of the risk factors on nutritional status.