Paolo Sorbini Foundation
“If we want to make progress we need to do research. Especially in nutrition, scientific research is essential. Research must go on and on, always.”
Paolo Sorbini
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Paolo Sorbini Foundation "for science in nutrition" was founded by Maurizia, Pino and Alberto Sorbini to keep to their father's teaching and to continue the scientific research that he had always done with great far-sightedness. Paolo Sorbini, expert in nutrition, was the founder of Also, today Enervit SpA, company leader in the field of sport dietary supplements and of the functional diet aimed at wellbeing. The Foundation is a no-profit organisation company which aims to support and promote scientific knowledge in diet and nutrition, in cooperation with public and private corporations and with both Italian and foreign universities. The Foundation's activity is leaded by the Scientific Committee, which gathers professionals and faculty expert in research, medicine and nutrition. |
President Maurizia Sorbini Director Maria Grazia Cenci Scientific Committee Enrico Arcelli Bruno Berra Paolo Biglioli Giancarlo Carli Carla Favaro Giovanni Scapagnini Umberto Scapagnini Cesare Sirtori Rodolfo Tavana Press Office Luciana Rota |
Paolo Sorbini
Paolo Sorbini was born on 5 July 1926 in a family of pharmacists of Montepulciano, in the district of Siena. He graduated in pharmacy at Parma University in 1951. One year later he got married to the colleague Franca Garavaglia and they had three sons: Maurizia, Pino and Alberto. Meanwhile he worked in the family pharmacy in Milan. Among the clients, Gino Bartali, fond of a preparation of kola nuts called Peptocola. In 1954 he founded the Also, a pharmaceutical company pionieer of active principles got from natural plant extracts. In 1972 he opened the plant of Zelbio, near the Como lake. As a friend of Vincenzo Torriani, leader of the Giro d'Italia, he took care of the medical assistance of the race and created the Giroclinica. Curious of everything new and interesting, he undertook an important research starting from cyclists and their "fuel": nutrition, a field where he broke firm dogma. Instead of salt, at that time in vogue among athletes, he tested potassium and magnesium aspartates. He eliminated sugar to overcome critical moments and he discovered the benefits of fructose, able to give energy without rising the level of glycaemia and insulin. In the early eighties he founded Equipe Enervit, a free association of physicians, scientists and sport technicians aiming to do research applied to sport. With his personality and energy, he drew the attention of many champions. He worked at Sara Simeoni's side, gold medal of high jump at Olympic Games in 1980 and at Francesco Moser's side for his record. Then he was with Reinhold Messner for the "eight thousanders" (8000 meter peaks), with the ace of skiing Alberto Tomba, with the champion of fencing, Valentina Vezzali. He discovered in the proteins of milk, those obtained through cold ultrafiltration, the means to enhance muscles. And he realized that his athletes not only improve their performance, but they also lose weight obtaining even better results. New company successful products were launched, such as the Enervit Protein, one of the first steps towards a real change in nutrition not only for athletes, summarized in the well-known slogan "Strong and Slim". Intolerant towards absolute certainty, fascinated by new frontiers, he found confirmation to his intuitions by travelling all over the world. He examined the properties of spelt in Chile, he experimented the sugar cane in Mauritius, he studied the adaptation at a high altitude in Tibet, the turmeric and Omega 3 in Okinawa, the city of centenarians. He was a tireless explorer, he anticipated the great topics of world dietetics. He created the foundations of a new nutritional strategy oriented toward wellbeing: a "New Nutrition" which would have revolutionized the firm beliefs of the last fifty years. At first sceptical, the academic world started getting interested in his results. With the Universities of Milan, Pavia, Siena and Catania he intensified the research on proteins, carbohydrates, fats, antioxidants and natural anti-inflammatory. In the last years of his life Paolo Sorbini focused on low-glycemic-level food and new carbohydrates that help keeping a young body and mind.
Mission
Nowadays the importance of a correct nutrition is socially acknowledged as something essential for a good quality of life. The mission of Paolo Sorbini’s Foundation for science in nutrition is to promote the scientific research in the field of nutrition and to spread its results.Today the constituents of food, their action and efficacy on body and mind are object of continuous scientific studies. A good application of the medical scientific results offers to everyone the opportunity to improve his/her health conditions. A correct food education has definitely a social role to improve the quality of life.
Goals
The Foundation deals with the following topics:- the improvement of body and mind efficiency, in sport and in everyday life.
- the prevention of diseases due to a sedentary lifestyle, poor eating habits and ageing.
Research
The Foundation works to support and spread the clinical knowledge in nutrition under all its aspects: preventive, specialist, diagnostic and therapeutic and through the promotion of research activity, professional update, continuous education and the spreading of the culture of a correct nutrition through the organization of congresses, seminars, practical courses, stages and participation in clinical cases.Health
The Foundation organizes and supports programmes that inform on the correct diet as the basis for a balanced and harmonic development of human being and the achievement of psychophysical well-being. In particular the Foundation considers as fundamental to educate young people especially those who go in for sport.Education
The Foundation considers of great importance to give scientific basis to nutrition that is very often treated by inexpert people. Because of this, it is involved in publications and editorial projects that make the scientific topics on nutrition more comprehensible to a wider public.
From the Statute
Article 1 - Establishment, Name and Headquarters
Maurizia Sorbini, Giuseppe Sorbini and Alberto Sorbini created a no-profit Foundation called "Fondazione Paolo Sorbini, for science in nutrition" here below only "Foundation". The Foundation will exclusively use the above mentioned name in any institutional communication addressed to public. The Foundation has its headquarters in Zelbio, with the possibility of moving in other cities or establishing branch offices. The change of the address within the district does not require any change in the statute.
Article 9 - The Technical and Scientific Committee
The Technical and Scientific Committee is headed by the President and is composed by maximum 15 (fifteen) members appointed by the Board of Directors among the experts in the fields as per art. 2. The Committee decides without restraints on the topics submitted by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors establishes the Committee, appoints its members, decides about their fees and allowances as well as the resources to assign for the activities promoted by the Committee.