The Mediterranean Diet

A food model implying tradition, socialization, balance: the term “ diet” is used to define the food-habits and the organization of more kinds of food within a certain time. If a diet is correctly followed, one can have the most advantages for health and fitness. This term was invented by the Americans at the beginning of the 60’s. Everything started at the end of the World War II when the American doctor, Ancel Keys, realized that some poor people living in the South of Italy presented a death rate for cardio-vascular diseases neatly lower than American people. The scientists hypothesised that this phenomenon was due to the food habits of the Mediterranean area: a wider epidemiologic research was carried on, this confirming this hypothesis and electing the Mediterranean diet as the best to prevent from cardiovascular diseases.