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Author: John G. Bruhn
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0806136138

The Roseto Story: An Anatomy of Health

Roseto is a small Italian-American community in east-central Pennsylvania. Medical books The Roseto Story. This fifteen-year study drawing on medical histories, physical examinations, and laboratory tests, compared a large sample of Rosetans to inhabitants of two neighboring communities, Bangor and Nazareth, and followed up this research with a sociological study of the three communities.

Despite a greater prevalence of obesity in Roseto, and despite similar dietary, smoking, and exercise habits and similar ethnic and genetic background, the inhabitants of Roseto were relatively immune to heart disease at the beginning of the research in 1963. They were also strikingly tenacious in adhering to Old World values and customs. When these traditional values and relationship were abandoned by the rising generation, the death rate from heart disease climbed toward the American norm Medical books The Roseto Story: An Anatomy of Health. Categories: Italian Americans->Social life and customs, Italian Americans->Pennsylvania->Social conditions, Myocardial infarction->Mortality->Pennsylvania->Roseto. Contributors: John G. Bruhn - Author. Format: Paperback

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TheNile.com.au About FAQ Payment Delivery Contact Us 1800-987-323 The Roseto Story: An Anatomy of Health (English) by John G. Bruhn , Stewart G. Wolf Format Paperback Condition Brand New Language English The Lesson the Roseto experience offers American is that the thwarting of their biological need for social cohesion, community and emotional security is doing them tremendous harm--and that they need, urgently, to find distinctly American ways to share their lives with one another in warm, supp

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Medical Book The Roseto Story

This fifteen-year study drawing on medical histories, physical examinations, and laboratory tests, compared a large sample of Rosetans to inhabitants of two neighboring communities, Bangor and Nazareth, and followed up this research with a sociological study of the three communities.

Despite a greater prevalence of obesity in Roseto, and despite similar dietary, smoking, and exercise habits and similar ethnic and genetic background, the inhabitants of Roseto were relatively immune to heart disease at the beginning of the research in 1963. They were also strikingly tenacious in adhering to Old World values and customs. When these traditional values and relationship were abandoned by the rising generation, the death rate from heart disease climbed toward the American norm. The study concluded that unconditional interpersonal support counteracts life stress and thus preserves life.