Anna Ferro Luzzi is an Italian research scientist defined by Professor Alessandro Menotti as the first to have introduced the expression “Mediterranean Diet”...
Category - Pioneers
Daan Kromhout, PhD, is Professor of Public Health Research at the University of Wageningen and Vice President of the Netherlands Health Council. In 1974 he graduated in...
Antonia Trichopoulou, MD, PhD, is a state-certified doctor in Biopathology (laboratory medicine), a Master in Public Health and a PhD in Nutrition and Biochemistry. She...
Henry Blackburn
How to live happily? Doing research with Ancel Keys to improve the Public Health
Henry Blackburn was born in Miami, Florida, on March 22, 1925. Educated at the University of Miami and Tulane University School of Medicine, he was then trained at the...
Jeremiah Stamler was born in New York, on October 1919. In 1943 he graduated as Medical Doctor. In 1948 he specialized in cardiovascular field. He made very important...
Angela Amendola was the wife and life partner of Angelo Vassallo, the mayor of Pollica (Salerno), a fisherman and the vice-president of Città Slow International, who was...
Alessandro Menotti was an Italian pioneer in cardiovascular and epidemiology diseases and an important researcher in the Italian team of the Seven Countries Study. He...
Delia Morinelli, the old housekeeper of Ancel and Margaret Keys, grants an interview full of memories about recipes and culinary tradition. Delia worked at Keys home for...
Mario Mancini was born on 17 September 1930 in Naples. Driven by his passion, he applied to the University of Medicine and, in the immediate postwar, he graduated and...
Carrie Keys D’Andrea is the Ancel and Margaret Keys’ daughter. They were the pioneers of the Mediterranean Diet and the studies on Epidemiology. She was...