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The ancient Greek word, which derives from diet, lifestyle means balanced, and this is exactly what is Mediterranean diet a pattern much more than nutrition. The Mediterranean diet is a lifestyle, not just a dietary pattern that combines ingredients from local agriculture, recipes and cooking methods of each place, shared meals, events and traditions, coupled with moderate physical exercise but helped by a daily round mild climate that lifestyle that modern science invites us to take the benefit of our health, making it an excellent model for healthy living.

The Mediterranean diet is a valuable cultural heritage that from the simplicity and the variety has resulted in a complete and balanced combination of food based on fresh, local and seasonal as far as possible.

Embraces all peoples of the Mediterranean basin and consists of landscapes, crops, and cultivation techniques, markets, working, spaces and gestures culinary flavors and fragrances, colors, social gatherings and celebrations, legends and devotions, joys and sorrows, as well as innovation of tradition.

It has been passed from generation to generation for centuries, and is closely linked to the lifestyle of the Mediterranean peoples throughout its history. Has evolved, welcoming and incorporating wisely, new foods and techniques resulting from the strategic location and capacity of mixing and exchange of the Mediterranean peoples. The Mediterranean diet has been, and remains, a cultural heritage evolutionary, dynamic and vital.

Food is not, in the Mediterranean, only nutrients. Convene. The words of Plutarch in his Parallel Lives perfectly illustrate this with a simple reality: “Men are invited not to eat and drink but to eat and drink together.”

There is no doubt that in the Mediterranean, when we talk about ingredients in your diet, the trilogy wheat, vines and olive trees, beans, to vegetables, to fruit, fish, cheeses, nuts in there that add an essential condiment, perhaps a basic ingredient: sociability.

The dieta mediterranea is characterized by abundant plant foods such as bread, pasta, rice, vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts; the use of olive oil as main source of fat, moderate consumption of fish, shellfish, poultry, dairy products (yogurt, cheese) and eggs, while consumption of small amounts of red meat and daily intake of wine generally consumed at meals. Their importance to the health of individuals is not limited to the fact that it is a balanced diet with a varied and adequate supply of macronutrients. For the benefits of its low content of saturated fatty acids and high in monounsaturated and in complex carbohydrates and fiber, add the wealth derived from its antioxidant substances. Continue Reading »
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