Antonino De Lorenzo

Antonino De Lorenzo (born 3 September 1954) is a Specialist in Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy, a Full Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the School of Specialization in Food Science at the University of Roma "Tor Vergata", where he is also Director of the PhD Research in "Physiology of Districts Corporeal" and director of the Unit "Service of Clinical Nutrition, and Parenteral Therapy Anorexia Nervosa". During his long research and studies on body composition, he discovered the "Normal Weight Obese Syndrome". He holds positions of scientific responsibility for national and international research projects and is a member of several scientific societies including: Member of the Executive Committee and Head of Research of the Italian Society of Human Nutrition, member of the American College of Nutrition (European Chapter). He is the author of over 250 articles in international journals with "peer revision" in PubMed, 54 chapters of national and international treaties and 150 articles in journals and conference proceedings in Italy and abroad. President of the National Institute for the Mediterranean diet and the Nutrigenomics (INDi.M).

The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation originally inspired by the dietary patterns of Greece, Southern Italy, and Spain in the 1940s and 1950s. The principal aspects of this diet include proportionally high consumption of olive oil, legumes, unrefined cereals, fruits, and vegetables, moderate to high consumption of fish, moderate consumption of dairy products (mostly as cheese and yogurt), moderate wine consumption, and low consumption of non-fish meat products.

He is one of the leading researchers in the field whose research objectives include:

In 2006, De Lorenzo A. et al. have identified the Normal Weight Obese (NWO)syndrome, characterized by normal body weight and BMI, but high TBFat accumulation. The frequency of NWO syndrome is typically found in females. A study was conducted at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Human Nutrition Unit, on a sample of Caucasian women from Centre-South of Italy. In the study was included a complete and clear medical history of women. The subjects were also categorized into BMI subgroups according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, other study parameters were: gender, age, anthropometric measurements, Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), statistical analysis. The following predictive equation of PBF was derived:

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