Mediterranean diet and dietary protein supplementation as possible predicting variables of weight management: an update of the Protein Project

Antonino Bianco¹, Ewan Thomas¹, Marianna Bellafiore¹, Francesco Martines², Giuseppe Messina¹, Giuseppe Battaglia¹, Bettina Karsten³, Fatma Nese Sahin⁴, Grzegorz Bielec⁵, Antonio Paoli⁶, Antonio Palma¹

¹Sport and Exercise Research Unit, University of Palermo, Italy - ²BioNeC Department, Audiology Section, University of Palermo -³Department of Life and Sports Sciences, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom - ⁴Faculty of Sport Science, Ankara University, Turkey - ⁵Department of Environmental Sciences, Warmia and Mazury University in Olsztyn, Poland - ⁶Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padova, Italy