@article{11419,
  keywords = {Alzheimer disease, Culture, diet, Mediterranean, Health Promotion, Humans, Life Style, Mediterranean diet, Nutrition Policy, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Parkinson disease, public health, Public health nutrition, Scientific evidence, Social environment, Sustainability, acute heart infarction, article, asthma, breast cancer, caloric intake, cancer risk, cardiovascular mortality, cognition, colorectal cancer, cultural anthropology, cultural factor, diabetes mellitus, Economic development, energy expenditure, Ethnology, health care policy, Health Promotion, human, ischemic heart disease, life expectancy, lifestyle, low fat diet, metabolic syndrome X, multiinfarct dementia, Nutrition, nutritional parameters, obesity, Olive oil, physical activity, psychological aspect, public health, quality of life, Social environment, weight gain},
  author = {Lluis Serra-Majem and Anna Bach-Faig and Blanca Raido-Quintana},
  title = {Nutritional and Cultural Aspects of the Mediterranean Diet},
  abstract = {The recent recognition by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) of the Mediterranean diet as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity reinforces, together with the scientific evidence, the Mediterranean diet as a cultural and health model. The Mediterranean diet has numerous beneficial effects on among others the immune system, against allergies, on the psyche, or even on quality of life, topics that are currently fields of research. The Mediterranean diet has an international projection; it is regarded as the healthiest and the most sustainable eating pattern on the planet and is a key player in the public health nutrition field globally, but especially in the Mediterranean area. Moreover, this ancient cultural heritage should be preserved and promoted from different areas: public health, agriculture, culture, politics, and economic development.},
  volume = {82},
  number = {3},
  pages = {157-162},
  issn = {03009831 (ISSN)},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84874164466&doi=10.1024%2f0300-9831%2fa000106&partnerID=40&md5=0ce56fb6eba2fcbf4417d810896e3bc5},
  doi = {10.1024/0300-9831/a000106},
}