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Extra Virgin Olive Oil: From Composition to “Molecular Gastronomy”
The aim of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of the recent results of studies on extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) and its interactions with other food ingredients during cooking, to highlight basic mole...
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Inflammatory Angiogenesis and the Tumor Microenvironment as Targets for Cancer Therapy and Prevention
In addition to aberrant transformed cells, tumors are tissues that contain host components, including stromal cells, vascular cells (ECs) and their precursors, and immune cells. All these constituents interact...
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The Diet as a Cause of Human Prostate Cancer
Asymptomatic prostate inflammation and prostate cancer have reached epidemic proportions among men in the developed world. Animal model studies implicate dietary carcinogens, such as the heterocyclic amines fr...
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Novel Approaches in Melanoma Prevention and Therapy
The incidence of cutaneous melanoma has risen at a rate significantly higher than that for other malignancies. This increase persists despite efforts to educate the public about the dangers of excess exposure ...
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Dietary Salt Intake and Risk of Gastric Cancer
Humans began to use large amounts of salt for the main purpose of food preservation approximately 5,000 years ago and, although since then advanced technologies have been developed allowing drastic reduction i...
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Anti-Inflammatory and Anticancer Drugs from Nature
Over the centuries, plant extracts have been used to treat various diseases. Until now, natural products have played an important role in anticancer therapy as there are more than 500 compounds from terrestria...
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The Influence of Resistance Training on the Glycaemia and the Lipid Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes — the Meta-Analysis
Physical training is one of the key elements in a health-oriented change of lifestyle in diabetes. A regular aerobic training (AT) in diabetes is recommended both by European and American scientific associatio...
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Public Health Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases in Various Areas of Europe
Cardiovascular diseases remain a major cause of death in Eastern Europe, especially in the republics of the former Soviet Union. The east-west CVD mortality differences in Europe are multi — factorial, variati...
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Struggle over Tobacco Control in Serbia: Transnational Tobacco Companies vs. Public Health
Serbia as one of the former Yugoslav countries and post communist countries had a hard time and developments during the last decade. Disintegration of former Yugoslavia and wars in Croatia and Slovenia in 1991...
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Redefining the Mission of the Medical School
Organizational and institutional turbulence and shrinking academic budgets are buffeting medical schools in both industrialized and develo** countries. Current political and public scrutiny is focused on esc...
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Measuring the Burden of Illness in General Populations
This chapter has two themes: medical schools have traditionally failed to devote attention to the determinants of health and medical students are taught on an unrepresentative sample of patients and health condit...
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Population-Based Medicine: A Case Study from a Traditional School
In the United States, physician education developed within and was formed by two institutions: the medical school and the teaching hospital, the first emphasizing basic science and second emphasizing, supervis...
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Essential Institutional Competencies for Population-Based Education
If a medical school is not turning out a mix of clinicians capable of meeting the wide variety of needs for medical care that characterizes all human populations, the relevance and validity of its teaching and...
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Balancing Perspectives
For 3 days the participants in the Turnberry Conference debated the points raised in the eight preceding chapters by the authors, discussants, and others. All were agreed that while medical education had adapt...
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The Social Contract and the Medical School’s Responsibilities
This is a chapter with a point of view. In brief, since medical care is a social good, medical schools have “social responsibilities” that can and should be manifest in their mission and activities. Our explor...
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The Potential and Organization of Health Intelligence Units
Is the role of the university in society simply to generate, interpret, and transmit new knowledge? Or will universities come out of the “ivory tower” and join in meaningful partnerships with community leaders...
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A Community and Population-Oriented Medical School: Newcastle, Australia
Newcastle is the commercial and industrial center of the Hunter Valley, which was first explored by Europeans almost 200 years ago. The city started as a convict station established to mine large coal deposits...
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Essential Population-Based Competencies for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Medical Students
This chapter is written from the standpoint of an academic clinician. Its perspective is therefore likely to differ from that which might be advanced by an epidemiologist, community physician, or other expert ...
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Introduction Public Education in Cancer Control
There has been an increasing realization in recent years that education of the public about cancer is an essential element of cancer control and prevention. In 1963 an Expert Comittee of the World Health Organ...
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The Behaviour of the Individual and Motivation
This section of the monograph is treated differently from the rest. It has been possible in other sections to prepare either detailed bibliographies of published work on the study of attitudes to cancer, as in...
