RT Book, Whole
T1 The Blue Zone of Sardinia: An intergenerational epidemiological study on nutrition and its application in public health
T2 Blue Zone de Cerdeña un estudio epidemiológico intergeneracional sobre nutrición y su aplicación en salud pública
A1 Canelada Fernández, Ana María
K1 Longevidad - Aspectos nutricionales
K1 Nutrición
K1 Hábitos alimenticios
K1 Cerdeña (Italia)
AB This doctoral thesis addresses a new paradigm, Blue Zone. The Blue Zone concept is integrated into what has been called population longevity: “areas where the population is characterized by a significantly higher level of longevity compared to neighboring regions, provided that this exceptional longevity of the population has been fully validated”. First, the Blue Zone concept is placed in a concrete framework, and later the study is focused on the Blue Zone of Sardinia as a positive and evolutionary nutritional model. The predominant characteristics of each Blue Zone are analyzed within the selected longevity determinants. The Blue Zones Project®, developed in the United States and based on the journalistic work of  Dan Buettner in conjunction with National Geographic, is described. It continues with a historical study of the diet of the centenarians of Sardinia to finally compare it with the diet of the new generations and see the degree of intergenerational integration. At the same time, the diet of the child population of the longevity epicenter, Villagrande Strisaili, (with the lowest rate of overweight and obesity on the island), is compared with the diet of an urban school group, from the city of Sassari. Four Blue Zones have been identified and validated: Okinawa (Japan), Nicoya Peninsula (Costa Rica), Icaria (Greece) and the central region of Sardinia (Italy).
YR 2021
FD 2021-12
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/23337
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/23337
LA eng
NO TRANSLATION OF THE OFFICIAL DOCTORAL THESIS / TRADUCCIÓN DE LA TESIS OFICIAL:“Blue Zone de Cerdeña un estudio epidemiológico intergeneracional sobre nutrición y su aplicación en salud pública”Archived in RIUMA / Depositada en RIUMA:https://riuma.uma.es/xmlui/handle/10630/15053
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026