THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET, MODEL OF SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE, CONSUMPTION OF 0 KM FOOD, NATURAL, SEASONAL AND VARIED FOOD.
Mediterranean diet, the benefits
The Mediterranean diet makes you live longer and live better than any other diet.
The pioneering studies of Keys, have shown how the lifestyle and the natural and seasonal foods used in the regime of life cd “Mediterranean” have a countless number of benefits, and prevent a number of chronic and degenerative diseases, The intake of foods of the traditional Mediterranean reduce the development of various cancers (that of the upper digestive tract, stomach, color – rectum, pancreas, liver, hormonal cancers.
The Mediterranean diet can positively influence the aging process, delay the evolution of cognitive decline related to Alzheimer’s disease, and vascular dementia. Other positive effects are still being studied, but it seems to have very positive consequences in inflammation and improvement of endothelial function.
Not only that.
The FAO has estimated that by 2050, in order to meet the needs of a growing and wealthier world population, an increase in demand for animal products will be required, with an increase in food production
by at least 60%.
This will result in a major challenge to food security and its sustainability,
with possible further negative effects
on climate change.
In 2009 an international conference on “Mediterranean Diet as a Sustainable Model” was organized.
In 2010 an international symposium on biodiversity and sustainability organized by FAO, “United Against Hunger” was held in Rome and accepted the following definition of sustainability:
Sustainable diets are those diets that have a low environmental impact
and that contribute to food and
food security and healthy living for both present and future generations.
future generations. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally
acceptable, accessible, economically equitable and affordable; nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy;
while constituting an optimization of both natural and human resources.