[The role of food in the workplace for health promotion and education to the future]. / Il ruolo dell'alimentazione sui luoghi di lavoro per la promozione del benessere organizzativo e l'educazione al futuro.

Health promotion and education to the future and sustainability are a new potential approach in order to try to reduce diet- and lifestyle-related diseases (cancer, metabolic disorders, obesity, neurodegenerative diseases). Inclusion of educational pathways associated to food consumption out of the home, especially in the workplace, may represent a brand new strategy of intervention, an alternative to the disappointing results of more traditional information-educational strategies implemented so far.

Immunological and gadolinium-DTPA MRI evaluation of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis.

The levels of lymphocytes, blood lymphocytes subsets (CD3+, CD4+, CD8+, DR+, CD25+, CD4+, CD45RA+, CD4+, CD29+ cells) and sIL-2r of 10 patients affected by relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis were serially studied. The identification of the activity of the disease was made by gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA) MRI. The immunological determinations and the MRI of the brain and spinal cord were performed every 14th day for a period of three months. No significant difference of the immunological values were found between the presence and the absence of Gd-DTPA enhancing areas, except lymphocytes (p < 0.05). These immunological parameters, evaluated in the peripheral blood, are not a marker of disease activity in relapsing-remitting MS patients.