Basic Nutrition
Nutraceuticals in practice
Cristina Pederiva, Vanessa Nadia Dargenio, Fernanda Cristofori, Ruggiero Francavilla
1U.O. Clinica Pediatrica. Servizio Clinico Dislipidemie per lo Studio e la Prevenzione dell’Aterosclerosi in età Pediatrica. ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milano. Università degli Studi di Milano. 2Unità Operativa Pediatria Generale e Specialistica, Sezione di Gastroenterologia, Epatologia e Nutrizione Pediatrica Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro” Ospedale Pediatrico Giovanni XXIII, Bari
In recent decades there has been a growing interest in nutraceutics and its beneficial applications on human health. The control of dyslipidemia is one of the fields that has gained particular interest and on which most of these trials are focused. We will try to examine the benefits and limitations of the use of different nutraceuticals in pediatrics and to draw possible indications for their use in clinical practice.