{"title":"Food Cultures to Improve","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2019-3(1)-105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2019-3(1)-105","url":null,"abstract":"I am writing this article inspired by three books i read:\u00001. Food and health, by Vandana Shiva et al\u00002. Diet myth, by Tim Spector\u00003. Zen and eating well art, by Seigaku\u0000All these books express food culture, that is basis to eat better, live better and perceive better eating habits, eating philosophy, relationship with food and the link between food and environment, between food and us or our wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":197773,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Life Science and Nurtitional Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130732903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antioxidant Effects of Vitamins C, E and Provitamin A Compounds as Monitored by Use of Biochemical Oxidative Indicators Linked to Atherosclerosis and Carcinogenesis","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2019-3(1)-104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2019-3(1)-104","url":null,"abstract":"Reactive oxygen species as initiators of oxidative stress account for LDL and DNA oxidative changes that are respectively associated with the development of pathological conditions such as atherosclerosis and carcinogenesis. This review paper first focuses on specific bio-indicators used to monitor these harmful oxidative stress conditions and develop health strategies against the associated human diseases. Subsequently, it provides an overview of the most recent available literature on the protective role that certain antioxidant vitamins (vitamin C, vitamin E and provitamin A compounds) have been reported to exert against the biochemical oxidative processes that govern the initiation of these specific human diseases.","PeriodicalId":197773,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Life Science and Nurtitional Research","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117007719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The System View of the Origin of Cellular Life","authors":"","doi":"10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2018-2(1)-103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31829/2765-8368/alsnr2018-2(1)-103","url":null,"abstract":"The commonly accepted view in the system biology of the minimal cell is a bottom-up approach which assumes that one can reach the properties of modern cells by stepwise increasing the complexity of biopolymers-containing vesicles. It is argued here that the great gap between the paucity of the results achievable in such a way, vis a vis the complexity of modern minimal cells, opens the question of the validity of this bottom up, stepwise approach as a matter of principle. We present here arguments in favor of an alternative view point, a systemic approach starting from the top, namely with the whole system of a very large population of mutually interacting vesicles initially randomly overfilled with DNA, RNA, proteins. This view is based on published literature data reporting the spontaneous overcrowding of vesicles formed in situ in a diluted solution of biopolymers, once that there is the simultaneous occurrence of vesicle-forming surfactants in the same macromolecular solution [28-32].\u0000The assumption is then made, that if such an enormous number (109-1011) of overfilled vesicles would be formed, then there would be a finite probability that one of them, or even a few, could have the right combination and concentration to start life – or at least the first dynamic steps towards a selection process, which, through mutual interaction, fusion and eventually vesicles proliferation, could arrive at a homeostatic equilibrium, conductive to the first forms of cellular life\u0000– possibly already at a level of a quasi-colony.","PeriodicalId":197773,"journal":{"name":"Archives of Life Science and Nurtitional Research","volume":"26 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114023426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}