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5. Adverse Effects of Plant Food Supplements Self-Reported by Consumers in the PlantLIBRA Survey Involving Six European Countries

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Restani, Patrizia, primary, Di Lorenzo, Chiara, additional, Garcia-Alvarez, Alicia, additional, Badea, Mihaela, additional, Ceschi, Alessandro, additional, Egan, Bernadette, additional, Dima, Lorena, additional, Lüde, Saskia, additional, Maggi, Franco M., additional, Marculescu, Angela, additional, Milà-Villarroel, Raimon, additional, Raats, Monique M., additional, Ribas-Barba, Lourdes, additional, Uusitalo, Liisa, additional, and Serra-Majem, Lluís, additional

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2016
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6. Usage of Plant Food Supplements across Six European Countries: Findings from the PlantLIBRA Consumer Survey

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Garcia-Alvarez, Alicia, primary, Egan, Bernadette, additional, de Klein, Simone, additional, Dima, Lorena, additional, Maggi, Franco M., additional, Isoniemi, Merja, additional, Ribas-Barba, Lourdes, additional, Raats, Monique M., additional, Meissner, Eva Melanie, additional, Badea, Mihaela, additional, Bruno, Flavia, additional, Salmenhaara, Maija, additional, Milà-Villarroel, Raimon, additional, Knaze, Viktoria, additional, Hodgkins, Charo, additional, Marculescu, Angela, additional, Uusitalo, Liisa, additional, Restani, Patrizia, additional, and Serra-Majem, Lluís, additional

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2014
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7. Usage of Plant Food Supplements (PFS) for weight control in six European countries: results from the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey 2011-2012.

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Garcia-Alvarez, Alicia, Mila-Villarroel, Raimon, Ribas-Barba, Lourdes, Egan, Bernadette, Badea, Mihaela, Maggi, Franco M., Salmenhaara, Maija, Restani, Patrizia, and Serra-Majem, Lluis

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DIETARY supplements, PREVENTION of obesity, ARTICHOKES, REGULATION of body weight, CHI-squared test, CONFIDENCE intervals, MEDICAL cooperation, BOTANIC medicine, PINEAPPLE, PLANTS, PROBABILITY theory, QUESTIONNAIRES, RESEARCH, RESEARCH funding, SURVEYS, T-test (Statistics), GREEN tea, BODY mass index, CROSS-sectional method, RETROSPECTIVE studies, DATA analysis software, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, THERAPEUTICS
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Background: Obesity is increasing worldwide and weight-control strategies, including the consumption of plant food supplements (PFS), are proliferating. This article identifies the herbal ingredients in PFS consumed for weight control and by overweight/obese dieters in six European countries, and explores the relationship between their consumption and their self-reported BMI. Methods: Data used were a subset from the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey 2011-2012, a retrospective survey of 2359 PFS consumers. The survey used a bespoke frequency-of-PFS-usage questionnaire. Analyses were performed in two consumer subsamples of 1) respondents taking the products for "body weight reasons", and 2) "dieters for overweight/obesity", to identify the herbal ingredients consumed for these reasons. The relationship between the 5 most consumed herbal ingredients and self-reported BMI in groups 1 and 2 is explored by comparing BMI proportions of consumers vs. non-consumers (using Chi-squared test). Results: 252 PFS (8.8 %) were consumed for "body weight reasons" (by 240 PFS consumers); 112 PFS consumers (4.8 %) were "dieting for overweight/obesity". Spain is the country where consuming herbal ingredients for body weight control and dieting were most popular. Artichoke was the most consumed herbal ingredient. Considering only the 5 top products consumed by those who responded "body weight", when using the total survey sample, a greater proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among consumers of PFS containing artichoke and green tea as compared to non-consumers (58.4 % vs. 49.1 % and 63.2 % vs. 49.7 % respectively). Considering only the 5 top products consumed by "dieters" and using only the "dieters" sample, a lower proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among pineapple-containing PFS consumers (38.5 % vs. 81.5 %); however, when using the entire survey sample, a greater proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among artichoke-containing PFS consumers (58.4 % vs. 49.1 %). Conclusions: A comparison of results among the scarce publications evaluating the use of weight-loss supplements at the population level is limited. Nevertheless every hint is important in finding out which are the self-treatment strategies used by overweight/obese individuals in European countries. Although limited by a small sample size, our study represents a first attempt at analysing such data in six EU countries. Our findings should encourage the conduction of further studies on this topic, long-term and large sample-sized studies, ideally conducted in the general population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2016
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10. Usage of Plant Food Supplements (PFS) for weight control in six European countries: results from the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey 2011-2012

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Garcia-Alvarez, Alicia, Mila-Villarroel, Raimon, Ribas-Barba, Lourdes, Egan, Bernadette, Badea, Mihaela, Maggi, Franco M., Salmenhaara, Maija, Restani, Patrizia, and Serra-Majem, Lluis

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0301 basic medicine, Adult, Male, Adolescent, Population, Overweight, PlantLIBRA survey, Plant foods, European, Body Mass Index, 03 medical and health sciences, Young Adult, 0302 clinical medicine, Weight loss, Environmental health, Plant food supplements, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, education, Retrospective Studies, education.field_of_study, 030109 nutrition & dietetics, Traditional medicine, business.industry, Weight control, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Obesity, 3. Good health, Complementary and alternative medicine, Dietary Supplements, Female, Anti-Obesity Agents, Plant Preparations, medicine.symptom, business, Body mass index, Dieting, Phytotherapy, Research Article
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Background Obesity is increasing worldwide and weight-control strategies, including the consumption of plant food supplements (PFS), are proliferating. This article identifies the herbal ingredients in PFS consumed for weight control and by overweight/obese dieters in six European countries, and explores the relationship between their consumption and their self-reported BMI. Methods Data used were a subset from the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey 2011-2012, a retrospective survey of 2359 PFS consumers. The survey used a bespoke frequency-of-PFS-usage questionnaire. Analyses were performed in two consumer subsamples of 1) respondents taking the products for “body weight reasons”, and 2) “dieters for overweight/obesity”, to identify the herbal ingredients consumed for these reasons. The relationship between the 5 most consumed herbal ingredients and self-reported BMI in groups 1 and 2 is explored by comparing BMI proportions of consumers vs. non-consumers (using Chi-squared test). Results 252 PFS (8.8 %) were consumed for “body weight reasons” (by 240 PFS consumers); 112 PFS consumers (4.8 %) were “dieting for overweight/obesity”. Spain is the country where consuming herbal ingredients for body weight control and dieting were most popular. Artichoke was the most consumed herbal ingredient. Considering only the 5 top products consumed by those who responded “body weight”, when using the total survey sample, a greater proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among consumers of PFS containing artichoke and green tea as compared to non-consumers (58.4 % vs. 49.1 % and 63.2 % vs. 49.7 % respectively). Considering only the 5 top products consumed by “dieters” and using only the “dieters” sample, a lower proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among pineapple-containing PFS consumers (38.5 % vs. 81.5 %); however, when using the entire survey sample, a greater proportion of BMI ≥ 25 was observed among artichoke-containing PFS consumers (58.4 % vs. 49.1 %). Conclusions A comparison of results among the scarce publications evaluating the use of weight-loss supplements at the population level is limited. Nevertheless every hint is important in finding out which are the self-treatment strategies used by overweight/obese individuals in European countries. Although limited by a small sample size, our study represents a first attempt at analysing such data in six EU countries. Our findings should encourage the conduction of further studies on this topic, long-term and large sample-sized studies, ideally conducted in the general population.

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31. Serotonin Control on Anxiety

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Marazziti, D., Perugi, G., Cassano, G. B., Paoletti, Rodolfo, editor, Vanhoutte, Paul M., editor, Brunello, Nicoletta, editor, and Maggi, Franco M., editor

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1990
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39. Serotonin in Depression and Anxiety

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Brown, Serena-Lynn, Korn, Martin L., Van Praag, Herman M., Paoletti, Rodolfo, editor, Vanhoutte, Paul M., editor, Brunello, Nicoletta, editor, and Maggi, Franco M., editor

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1990
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