Mediterranean Diet and Oxidation: Nuts and Olive Oil as Important Sources of Fat and Antioxidants
Oxidative stress has been involved in the aetiology of hypertension, insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and other chronic conditions. Several epidemiological studies suggest that a diet rich in natural antioxidants is associated with protective effects
against major diseases, especially cardiovascular disease. The Mediterranean diet is rich in fat and foods with important antioxidant properties, such as fruits and vegetables, olive oil, and nuts. In this review we focus on epidemiological evidence and clinical trials that relate the Mediterranean
diet with oxidative stress markers. We focus our review on two important Mediterranean vegetable sources of potentially oxidized fat-olive oil and nuts.
Keywords: Alzheimer; Mediterranean diet; Nuts; Parkinson's disease; Radical Scavenging; antioxidants; cardiovascular disease; hypertension; insulin resistance; mediterranean diet; metabolic syndrome; oxidative stress; oxidative stress markers; virgin olive oil
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 July 2011
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