March 28, 2018 - 12:30 pm in Art and Culture @en, Food for thought @en, Health @en, Home @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Window of the soul @en, Wine & Food @enWhere Angels dare to eat.
“Where do Angels dare to eat?” It may seem obvious: Angels eat in paradise. And what do they eat? Angels would eat delicacies that transform every meal into a joyful feast. And who cooks them?…
November 11, 2017 - 11:16 am in Architecture @en, Art @en, Business, Business @en, Design @en, Events @en, Fashion @en, Food for thought @en, Health @en, Home @en, jewellery, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Style @en, Travel @enImmortality Is The Real Luxury Bling Things Don’t Last
Tiziana Leopizzi delves a little deeper into our cover theme. She argues that, more than ever, bling is trivial and art is eternal. Living in luxury and opulence is certainly the way to go for…
Cause and Effect of Hikikomori Syndrome affecting Japanese teenagers spreads elsewhere
Massimo Gava discusses a condition that touches at the roots of society, family and reality. Fumio lives in central Tokyo with his parents. He starts out as a normal kid – a little shy and reserved,…
LIVING POSITIVELY: Wild Horses, Carpe Diem and Bucket Lists: “Everybody Dies But Not Everyone Lives”
NOTE FROM THE EDITORS: This article is by our friend and colleague Elisa T. Keena, one of the bravest and most remarkable ladies we have ever known. Elisa wrote this for the current print edition…
The Road Warrior’s Guide to Battling Stress
How a colourful meal can help stop travellers’ blues (and other tips for decreasing stress and increasing immune function while travelling). By Elisa T. Keena Long queues,…
Re-Learning the Art of Eating Well: Diet by Maria Mekhael
By Maria Mekhael As a Nutritional Therapist, I frequently witness the multitude of anxieties that people experience around diet, and many of these manifest as a search for the “perfect” food…
Italian Festival Covers Culinary Excellence
“There is no love more sincere than that for food,” George Bernard Shaw once said. Now Cristina Colombera introduces a new Italian festival which celebrates just that. LovEat is the first…
December 11, 2015 - 4:54 pm in Health @en, Home @enMedicine’s quiet revolution: Dante reports. Live-saving news for heart patients.
There is too much bad news in the world: wars, terror, hate, sickness and deaths. It therefore gives us great pleasure in Dante magazine to report on the opposite: a peaceful story where medical…
December 6, 2015 - 2:27 pm in Health @en, Home @en“Vitamin C supplements can stop you getting a cold”: myth or reality?
DANTE magazine cares about health. One of our guiding principles is Mens sana in corpore sano- “healthy mind in a healthy body.” One of the ways to that is by taking lots of Vitamin C, right?…
December 1, 2015 - 5:00 am in Health @en, Home @en, Literature @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @enJudge Bearing HIV Witness
Edwin Cameron is a senior judge in South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal and the only person in public office to acknowledge having HIV/AIDS. In his book Witness to AIDS he gives a frank account…
October 22, 2015 - 8:44 am in Health @en, Home @en, Marco Pernini @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Wine & Food @enGluten- Free Pasta
Chef of celebrities Marco Pernini talks about the benefit of gluten-free pasta, and, revealing the true origins of Italy’s fascination with the foodstuff on the way, regales us with one of his…
June 23, 2015 - 8:59 am in Health @en, Home @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Window of the soul @enYes We Can A Greek Food for Thought Story
All we hear about today is the horrendous amount of food that is thrown away and wasted by the commercial retailers as well as households. And then again the alarming news that because of the…
April 23, 2015 - 9:37 pm in Health @en, Home @enLink between serotonin and depression is a myth, says top psychiatrist
The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain - and that effective treatments raise these levels - is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist in The British…
February 4, 2015 - 8:44 am in Health @en, Home @enCumulative daily screen time linked to teen sleep problems
Time to update recommendations on healthy use of electronic devices, say researchers [Sleep and use of electronic devices in adolescence: results from a large population-based study doi 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006748]…
January 26, 2015 - 12:05 am in Health @en, Home @enBritish Heart Foundation calls for ban on junk food ads.
Parents in Wales hounded by their kids to buy junk food they see on TV - BHF calls for ban on junk food ads before 9pm watershed - Over seven in ten (72%) parents with children aged 4 to 16 in…
January 16, 2015 - 7:33 pm in Health @en, Home @enBack to Basics
Ever thought you were paying way over the odds for that anti-wrinkle cream or face scrub and not being quite sure what on earth was actually in it? Dantemag ponders the wonders of skin and how…
October 17, 2014 - 10:45 am in Health @enTHE AGE OF CONTENT IS FIFTY-EIGHT silver foxes enjoy their golden years as 30-somethings struggle
New study reveals we get happier not grumpier as we age, The 10 keys to happiness revealed - spending time with family ranked #1 Doing a job you love is more important than career success We are…
April 5, 2014 - 10:49 am in Art @en, Health @enArrive in Spring like Persephone
The dark climb out of winter and into spring is written so deeply within our cells that we wrote it into our mythologies as well. But we’re not completely helpless before the cycling of the…
February 16, 2014 - 3:33 pm in Health @enDetox to Retox
With the turning of the autumn season, the Earth sheds the lush, verdant, luxurious excesses of spring and summer. The leaves turn, exploding in a rainbow of colours, then swirling, floating towards…
October 1, 2013 - 12:16 am in Health @enSerotonin: The Happy Hormone?
Serotonin and its brother neurotransmitters have been the talk of, well, everywhere at least since the appearance of Prozac, during the 1990s. But the more that is learned about this tiny molecule,…
August 1, 2013 - 4:38 pm in Health @enThe Rise of Frankenfoods
Throughout the world there are constant and consistent disagreements revolving around politics, culture, religion, health care, and financial ideology. It appears though that one cause, one concern,…
August 1, 2013 - 7:00 am in Architecture @en, Art and Culture @en, Cover @en, Design @en, Food for thought @en, Health @en, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Nonno Panda tales @en, Travel @en, Window of the soul @en, Wine & Food @enPermaculture: The True Story of Fagagna ’s Storks
In times like ours, where greed is destroying the world and nobody seems to care much about it, the simple truth of a small community, gathered around a project of solidarity to support a specific…
June 1, 2013 - 11:51 am in Art and Culture @en, Business, Health @en, massimo gava, Mens sana in corpore sano @en, Style @en, Wine & Food @enDoria and the Bucaneve: The Story of the “Snow Drop” the Most Famous Italian Biscuit
“Doria and the Snowdrop” sounds like a fairy story and in some ways it is. The snowdrop is a legendary biscuit created by a legendary biscuit-maker Zanin Doria. From its earliest beginnings…
June 1, 2013 - 11:16 am in Health @enThe Magic of Touch
Humans are tactile creatures, really. Many of the unique stresses of modern, westernised life might fairly be said to have their roots in an unfulfilled need for touch. Massage techniques not…
April 27, 2013 - 7:56 pm in Health @enThe Sunshine Vitamin
It may be that the best things in life really ARE free. For example it looks like a vitamin that we can obtain just by standing in a pool of sunlight, may have staggering implications –…
February 16, 2013 - 12:18 pm in Health @enCamillia Sinensis: A Cup of Life
If people took a cup of tea every day the pharmacists would starve. - Chinese proverb Ahhh, the effect Camillia Sinensis has on the human being – body and soul! Refreshing, relaxing, revitalising,…
December 8, 2012 - 4:38 pm in Health @enSeeking Balance in the Modern World: The Ancient Wisdom of Ayurveda
Known today as an “alternative” system of medicine, Ayurveda actually predates modern allopathic medicine by millennia. But it is far from primitive or superstitious. Given the limitations…
Mexico’s Eco-tourism Quest: In Search of a Gentle Shark
A gentle shark seems a laughable contradiction in terms – the stuff of sketch comedy routines. But the whale shark pretty much qualifies. And it's doing about as well as you'd expect, in today's…
July 1, 2012 - 12:01 am in Health @enThe Magic of Wine, Inside-Out
By Elisa T. Keena The health benefits of wine, although known for centuries, have gained renewed interest in the recent past, with enthusiasts and experts citing the benefits of this "functional…
June 10, 2012 - 8:57 pm in Health @enThe Balancing Act
We are what we eat! Depending on your last meal this statement may or may not elicit feelings of fear or anxiety. Even the person with the most draconian nutritional habits occasionally ingests…
December 1, 2011 - 11:02 am in Health @enSure About Your Sushi?
We’re not talking mercury levels or good fish gone bad. Veena Kanda’s question is: Are you sure you’re not eating the last of a species? There are some easy ways to be sure. T The earliest…
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