The Mediterranean diet is a healthy lifestyle, included by UNESCO in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2013, is characterized by a high consumption of seasonal vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, fish, eggs, togheter with a moderate intake of meat, oil and wine. If we go far back to ancient times, only in the 50s were the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet officially discovered thanks to the American scientist Ancel Keys. He noted that the poor inhabitants of small Southern Italian towns was much healthier than the wealthy ones worldwide.
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