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Sustainable Diets: the Mediterranean Diet As an Example

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Date 2011 Dec 15
PMID 22166185
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Objective: To present the Mediterranean diet as an example of a sustainable diet, in which nutrition, biodiversity, local food production, culture and sustainability are strongly interconnected.

Design: Review of notions and activities contributing towards the acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet.

Setting: The Mediterranean region and its populations.

Subjects: Mediterranean populations.

Results And Conclusions: The acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet needs the development of new cross-cutting intersectoral case studies to demonstrate further the synergies among nutrition, biodiversity and sustainability as expressed by the Mediterranean diet for the benefit of present and future generations.

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