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Combating inflammaging through a Mediterranean whole diet approach: The NU-AGE project's conceptual framework and design

  • Aurelia Santoro
  • , Elisa Pini
  • , Maria Scurti
  • , Giustina Palmas
  • , Agnes Berendsen
  • , Anna Brzozowska
  • , Barbara Pietruszka
  • , Anna Szczecinska
  • , Noël Cano
  • , Nathalie Meunier
  • , C. P.G.M. de Groot
  • , Edith Feskens
  • , Susan Fairweather-Tait
  • , Stefano Salvioli
  • , Miriam Capri
  • , Patrizia Brigidi
  • , Claudio Franceschi
  • , Cristina Fabbri
  • , Claudia Bertarelli
  • , Massimo Izzi
  • Mario Mazzocchi, Jean Michel Chardigny, Beatrice Morio, Daniele Rossi, Maurizio Notarfonso, Paul W. O'Toole, Kevin Cashman, Simon R. Carding, Claudio Nicoletti, Dirk Jacobs, Maria Xipsiti, Laura Fernandez, Josephine Wills, Xavier Irz, Natalia Kuosmanen, Efstathios S. Gonos, Konstantinos Voutetakis, Michael Salmon, Olivier Toussaint, Bruce W. Traill, Giuseppe Nocella, Barbara Caracciolo, Weili Xu, Ikonen Mikko Ikonen, Tuula Tuure, Robert Brummer, Fawzi Kadi, Sylvie Breton, Marie Triomphe, Guido Magario, Filippo Villani, Annibale Pancrazio, Brigitte Teufner, Josef Stocker, Francisco Javier Echevarría, Jose Ramón Iglesias, František Smrž, Lucie Krejcirova, Efthimia Koytsomitropoulou, Konstantinos Georgakidis, Rezan Yornuk, Cihan Ucar, Ben Van Ommen, Jildau Bouwman, Sebastiano Collino, Clara Jankovics, Adrienn Losó, Willem de Vos, Susana Fuentes, Eric Commelin
  • University of Bologna
  • Wageningen University & Research
  • Warsaw University of Life Sciences
  • Université Clermont Auvergne
  • CHU de Clermont-Ferrand
  • University of East Anglia
  • Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
  • Spread EuropeanSafetyGeie
  • Earley Gate
  • FoodDrinkEurope
  • European Food Information Council (EUFIC)
  • Maa Ja Elintarviketalouden Tutkimuskeskus
  • ETHNIKO IDRYMA EREVNON
  • Straticell
  • University of Reading
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • VALIO OY
  • Örebro University
  • Lesieur SAS
  • Villani S.p.A.
  • Pancrazio SpA
  • Wiesbauer Gourmet Gastro GmbH
  • Vidreres Llet
  • Zeelandia
  • Mevgal SA
  • YorukSutUrunleriHayvancilikGida San. Ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.
  • NederlandseOrganisatieVoorToegepast - TNO
  • Nestle
  • Mirelite Mirsa Zartkoruen Mukodo Reszvenytarsasag
  • EC6 Sarl

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Abstract

The development of a chronic, low grade, inflammatory status named "inflammaging" is a major characteristic of ageing, which plays a critical role in the pathogenesis of age-related diseases. Inflammaging is both local and systemic, and a variety of organs and systems contribute inflammatory stimuli that accumulate lifelong. The NU-AGE rationale is that a one year Mediterranean whole diet (considered by UNESCO a heritage of humanity), newly designed to meet the nutritional needs of the elderly, will reduce inflammaging in fully characterized subjects aged 65-79 years of age, and will have systemic beneficial effects on health status (physical and cognitive). Before and after the dietary intervention a comprehensive set of analyses, including omics (transcriptomics, epigenetics, metabolomics and metagenomics) will be performed to identify the underpinning molecular mechanisms. NU-AGE will set up a comprehensive database as a tool for a systems biology approach to inflammaging and nutrition. NU-AGE is highly interdisciplinary, includes leading research centres in Europe on nutrition and ageing, and is complemented by EU multinational food industries and SMEs, interested in the production of functional and enriched/advanced traditional food tailored for the elderly market, and European Federations targeting policy makers and major stakeholders, from consumers to EU Food & Drink Industries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-13
Number of pages11
JournalMechanisms of Ageing and Development
Volume136-137
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2014

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  2. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Keywords

  • Ageing
  • Elderly-tailored foods
  • Gut microbiota
  • Inflammaging
  • Mediterranean diet

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