Food, Villani: Cilento as World seat of the Mediterranean diet

“The Mediterranean diet will be soon introduced in the Unesco list as Mankind’s immaterial heritage and Cilento is the most representative seat, as everything started there over 40 years ago” Angelo Villani – the president of the Province of Salerno – affirms. The Mediterranean diet was discovered by the American doctor Ancel keys, surprised by the healthy lifestyle of the people from Cilento. The Mediterranean diet has its roots in the history of south Italy and Cilento. That’s why Villani announces: “We won’t permit anyone to take the Mediterranean away from Salerno and its province. It was born here and here its unique world seat will be created; the people from Liguria and Spain will have to accept this reason”. This is Antonio Bonfiglio’s proposal (the secretary for agriculture, woods and food) made during the talk-show “Mediterranean diet, a mankind’s heritage” organized in the fifth edition of Borsa Verdi of rural European countries”. The Mediterranean diet has become the ideal lifestyle adviced by all the nutritionists all over the world; it is made of a food style based on bread, pasta, pulses, extra-virgin olive oil, vegetables, Mediterranean fish, fruit and wine supported by a balanced consumption of the so-called luxurious food for example white meat, buffalo cheese and cakes. “To celebrate this event of world-wide importance, the Province of Salerno has already got an idea of the representative seat, symbol of Cilento and Vallo di Diomo: it is the palace Vinciprova in Pioffi, just the place where Ancel keys studied the positive effects of the Mediterranean diet” Villani has sustained.