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The Mediterranean diet: a short review of the health benefits
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: A Revelas --- St Nicholas General Hospital, Greece D Arvanitakis --- Venizelio General Hospital, GreeceThere is an urgent need to preserve the traditional diet in the Mediterranean countries and to stress its important contribution to the public health. The traditional Mediterranean diet can be revitalised within a modern environment and lifestyle and be adopted... -
Chemical thinning of ‘Barouni’ and ‘Manzanilla’ olives with naphthalene acetic acid under South African conditions
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Plant and Soil • Authors: J Jacques Crous --- Department of Horticultural Science, South Africa Willem J Steyn --- Department of Horticultural Science, South AfricaTable olives grown in the Mediterranean-type climate of Western Cape province of South Africa are prone to alternate bearing, as elsewhere in the world. To date, South African producers have tolerated the negative effects of alternate bearing, but due to... -
South African seed oils are safe for human consumption
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of Clinical Nutrition • Authors: M Opperman --- Functional Foods Research Unit, Department of Biotechnology and Consumer Science, AJS Benadé --- Functional Foods Research Unit, Department of Biotechnology and Consumer Science, CF Abrecht --- Cancer Association of South Africa, LL Matsheka --- Functional Foods Research Unit, Department of Biotechnology and Consumer Science,Objectives: A diet that is high in fat and low in carbohydrates is advocated in the recently published The Real Meal Revolution. A suggestion was made in this publication that seed oils are toxic. The authors stated that available seed... -
A psychobiography of Oliver Reginald Tambo from an African psychology perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Sunitha Swanepoel --- , South Africa Paul J. P. Fouché --- , South Africa Pravani Naidoo --- , South AfricaThe objective of this study was to psychologically reconstruct the life of Oliver Reginald Tambo (1917-1993), using integrated African-centred psychological approaches. The researchers applied a constructivist, single-case psychobiographical approach and Alexander’s (1988) principal identifiers of salience to analyse primary and... -
Primate diversity and species’ distributions in Maze National Park, southern Ethiopia
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Muluneh Dansa --- , Ethiopia Wondimagegnehu Tekalign --- , EthiopiaInformation on animal diversity and distribution is essential for designing management plans for conservation. This study aimed to investigate primate diversity and species’ distributions in the Maze National Park, southern Ethiopia. The study was conducted during the dry season (January–March)... -
Three decades of research on olive mill waste: A patent citation analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development • Authors: Ridha Mhamdi --- Centre of Biotechnology of Borj-Cedria, TunisiaThis paper investigates the technological impact of research on olive mill wastes (OMW) by analyzing patent citations. Using a dataset of 2448 publications from Scopus, we identified 151 papers cited by patents. The results show a moderate correlation between academic...