TY - JOUR
KW - Biodiversity
KW - Chronic diseases
KW - Conservation of Natural Resources
KW - diet
KW - Healthy
KW - diet
KW - Mediterranean
KW - Dietary pattern
KW - Feeding Behavior
KW - health behavior
KW - Healthy lifestyle
KW - History
KW - 21st Century
KW - Humans
KW - Mediterranean diet
KW - Nutritive Value
KW - Risk Reduction Behavior
KW - Short Survey
KW - Sustainability
KW - Terminology as Topic
KW - Traditional foods
KW - UNESCO
KW - Biodiversity
KW - breast cancer
KW - caloric intake
KW - cardiovascular mortality
KW - colorectal cancer
KW - Cultural diversity
KW - dietary compliance
KW - dietary intake
KW - Environmental protection
KW - Feeding Behavior
KW - food processing
KW - food safety
KW - health behavior
KW - healthy lifestyle
KW - hip fracture
KW - History
KW - human
KW - ischemic heart disease
KW - nomenclature
KW - non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
KW - nutritional value
KW - quality of life
KW - risk reduction
KW - vegetarian diet
AU - Antonia Trichopoulou
AB - Ten years ago the Mediterranean diet was inscribed into the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This official recognition of the Mediterranean diet as intangible cultural heritage, and awareness of its significance, has provided us with a measure with which to monitor our path in the field. Indeed, the last ten years has seen several undertakings with varying implications in the years to come. Emphasis on safeguarding the intangible heritage of the Mediterranean diet and activities to avoid possible erosions which may affect it at a national, regional and local level have taken centre stage. Preserving our heritage also recognized the importance of further research and we ask what needs to be focused on over the next ten years. Gradually, several myths and misconceptions associated with the traditional Mediterranean diet have emerged and should be clearly addressed and dispelled, particularly those that label as "Mediterranean" an eating pattern that is not in line with the traditional diet. Going beyond physical health benefits, the Mediterranean diet naturally infuses any reference to  Sustainability  by pure definition as ideally, sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically affordable, nutritionally adequate, and safe and healthy. As our  Regional  Mediterranean diet becomes the base for a global reference diet with all the acknowledged benefits, we agree that  humanity as a whole  will benefit from its preservation and scientific-based evidence. A true  intangible cultural heritage of humanity .
DO - 10.1016/j.numecd.2021.04.011
M1 - 7
N1 - Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
N2 - Ten years ago the Mediterranean diet was inscribed into the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This official recognition of the Mediterranean diet as intangible cultural heritage, and awareness of its significance, has provided us with a measure with which to monitor our path in the field. Indeed, the last ten years has seen several undertakings with varying implications in the years to come. Emphasis on safeguarding the intangible heritage of the Mediterranean diet and activities to avoid possible erosions which may affect it at a national, regional and local level have taken centre stage. Preserving our heritage also recognized the importance of further research and we ask what needs to be focused on over the next ten years. Gradually, several myths and misconceptions associated with the traditional Mediterranean diet have emerged and should be clearly addressed and dispelled, particularly those that label as "Mediterranean" an eating pattern that is not in line with the traditional diet. Going beyond physical health benefits, the Mediterranean diet naturally infuses any reference to  Sustainability  by pure definition as ideally, sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically affordable, nutritionally adequate, and safe and healthy. As our  Regional  Mediterranean diet becomes the base for a global reference diet with all the acknowledged benefits, we agree that  humanity as a whole  will benefit from its preservation and scientific-based evidence. A true  intangible cultural heritage of humanity .
SP - 1943
EP - 1948
TI - Mediterranean diet as intangible heritage of humanity: 10 years on
VL - 31
SN - 09394753 (ISSN)
ER -