• Alimentando Práticas – Prebióticos e Probióticos em preparações culinárias – Ana Vládia – artigo 1

    Evaluation of Anti-Hyperglycemic and Anti-Hyperlipidemic Activities of Water Kefir as Probiotic on Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Wistar Rats AbstractDiabetes mellitus is a predominant chronic disease which causes mortality of millions of people yearly. Its prevalence is on the rise worldwide. Water kefir is fermented food produced by a matrix of polysaccharides containing bacteria and yeasts, with therapeutic properties. Our study aimed to ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 22

    Efficacy of nutritional treatment in patients with psoriasis: A case report Abstract. Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by thickened, silvery‑scaled patches. There is currently no cure and treatments only attempt to reduce the severity of symptoms. This study reports the case of a 36‑year‑old female who presented to the clinic with severe psoriasis and had been treated with topical steroid cream for the past ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 21

    Environmental Risk Factors in Psoriasis: The Point of View of the Nutritionist Abstract: Psoriasis is a common, chronic, immune-mediated skin disease with systemic pro-inflammatory activation, where both environmental and genetic factors contribute to its pathogenesis. Among the risk factors for psoriasis, evidence is accumulating that nutrition plays a major role, per se, in psoriasis pathogenesis. In particular, body weight, nutrition, ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 20

    Nutritional strategies for psoriasis: current scientific evidence in clinical trials Abstract. – OBJECTIVE: Several nutritional strategies for the management of psoriasis are promising. Even if recent data support that nutrition may play a pivotal role in prevention and co-treatment and despite patient’s concerns regarding the best nutritional habits, the consensus regarding the nutritional strategies to be adopted lacks in ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 19

    Vitamin D and its role in psoriasis: An overview of the dermatologist and nutritionist Abstract Psoriasis is a chronic immune-mediated inflammatory skin disease. Psoriasis lesions are characterized by hyperproliferation of epidermal keratinocytes associated with inflammatory cellular infiltrate in both dermis and epidermis. The epidermis is the natural source of vitamin D synthesis  by sunlight action. Recently, a role for vitamin D in ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 18

    Systemic Role for Vitamin D in the Treatment of Psoriasis andMetabolic Syndrome The novel discovery of the systemic role of vitamin D in the modulation of the immune system especially the Type 1 helper T cell (Th1) pathway reveals its potential for treating Th1 inflammatory diseases. Psoriasis has been recently established to be a systemic disease centered on inflammation and involvement of cytokines of the Th1 pathway. There is an ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 17

    Association between Vitamin D deficiency and psoriasis: An exploratory study ABSTRACT Introduction: Deficiency of Vitamin D is a widespread problem. Vitamin D could have important immune modulatory effects in psoriasis. Objective: Aimed to review and endeavored to establish the relationship, if any, between deficiency of Vitamin D and psoriasis. Methods: Leading studies that examined the relationship between deficiency of Vitamin D and ...
  • Nutrição e Psoríase – Artigo 16

    Association between psoriasis and vitamin D: Duration of disease correlates with decreased vitamin D serum levels  An observational case-control study Recent literature has focused on the association of psoriasis with lower than normal or highly deficient vitamin D blood levels. To investigate the controversial association between psoriasis and vitamin D levels. From 2012 to 2014, 561 subjects were assessed, of which 170 had psorias...