OIL & HEALTH
Mediterranean Diet
The typical food of the population located in the Mediterranean Basin, as Italy, Greec, Spain and Francia, is rich in Pasta, Rice, bread, vegetable, legums, fruit , Olive Oil and other minor ingredient originally from Mediterranean area. This traditional dietary patterns has inspired a nutritional model called Mediterranean diet.
Mediterranean diet is rich in monounsaturated acid that are present in the Olive Oil, Antioxidant that are in vegetable and fruit and fiber that are present in pasta, bread.
For more then 30 years, modern and Nutritional experts have demonstrate the Health benefit of the MEDITTERRANEAN DIET. (1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
Sources
1) Keys, Ancel. "Coronary Disease in Seven Countries." Circulation 41, supp. (1970): 1–21.
2) Keys, Ancel. "Mediterranean Diet and Public Health: Personal Reflection." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 61, supp. (1995): 1321S–1323S.
3) Keys, Ancel, and Margaret Keys. How to Eat Well and Stay Well the Mediterranean Way. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975.
4) Keys, Ancel, et al. "Studies on Serum Cholesterol and Other Characteristics of Clinically Healthy Men in Naples." Archives of Internal Medicine 93 (1954): 328–335.
5) American Heart Association, Inc. 2001;103:1823-1825 Lyon Diet Heart Study -Benefits of a Mediterranean-Style, National Cholesterol Education Program/American Heart Association Step I Dietary Pattern on Cardiovascular Disease Penny Kris-Etherton, PhD, RD; Robert H. Eckel, MD; Barbara V. Howard, PhD; Sachiko St. Jeor, PhD, RD; Terry L. Bazzarre,
6) European Journal of Clinical Investigation [2005, 35(7):421-4], Lipid and Atherosclerosis Unit, Reina Sofia University Hospital, Cordoba, Spain. International conference on the healthy effect of virgin olive oil. Perez-Jimenez F, Alvarez de Cienfuegos G, Badimon L, Barja G, …….
7) EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY 2004, Volume 19, Number 1, 9-13-The emerging role of Mediterranean diets in cardiovascular epidemiology: Monounsaturated fats, olive oil, red wine or the whole pattern-Miguel Ángel Martínez-González and Almudena Sánchez-Villegas
