The Mediterranean Diet
Suspense school menus
The president of the Spanish Confederation of Housewives, Consumers and Users (CEACU), Isabel Avila, warned yesterday that 65 percent of school cafeterias do not meet the basic principles of healthy eating.
The president of CEACU stresses that “lower income, the more chances of obesity exist, because the food is considered optimal versus diet expensive junk.” Thus, Avila noted that 41% of consumers “are willing to pay more for functional foods called” an introduction with “very large” in the Spanish market.
For the head of this confederation of associations should educate the children from school, for what it considers “essential that schools provided information and facilitate the access of children to fruits and vegetables.”
Dr. Javier Aranceta, president of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC), qualifies the data published by the CEACU. “Actually, ‘said the doctor, I do not talk so much of menus and diet unhealthy easily improved. This is true of half the school kitchens of our country, which should improve the presentation issues, desserts the improvement in the warm chain, and probably include fish more times throughout the week. ”
This line says nutrition expert Carmen Ibanez, who said “it is a notorious shortage of fresh vegetables and fruits in season, always more expensive, school menus in our nation, which also abused carbohydrates and desserts, “said Ibanez.
Cereals, vegetables, oily fish and olive oil rivers. Healthy, cheap and highly recommended. The Mediterranean diet is better known than followed, as experts warn. A study published in the journal “Public Health Nutrition” prepared by the Mediterranean Diet Foundation (FDM) detects a clear departure from this pattern of eating.
These are the countries belonging to Mediterranean Europe which reflect a more significant decrease in the rate of adherence to the popular diet. The study, which analyzed the eating behavior of the past forty years and covering 41 countries, points out that Spain is the fourth Mediterranean country that loses the most in your diet, after Greece (which experienced a greater distance), Albania and Turkey.
“But he stresses Ana Bach, scientific coordinator of the FDM, while the basin countries have experienced in recent years a variation of the Mediterranean diet, northern Europe and other countries in the world come timidly healthy pattern of this type of food.” Thus, according to the report, Egypt is the country with more adherences to the Mediterranean diet in recent years. Meanwhile, countries like Iran, UK, Sweden, Denmark and Norway are close to these habits, though, with the exception of Iran, all are still far from the food pattern of the Mediterranean Diet.
Ana Bach is a priority for the promotion of the Mediterranean diet “and lifestyle of reference that has attracted interest from scientists around the world for their contribution to disease prevention. The process of globalization has also been decisive for the extension of this and other diets around the world. “
The stove, a diet
Meanwhile, Javier Aranceta, president of the Spanish Society of Community Nutrition (SENC) today announced that fifty percent of the Spanish population is abandoning the Mediterranean diet. To Aranceta, bonfires suspended in the early Spanish dishes “traditional stews, beans, cooked lifelong alternatives have been replaced by faster, easier, and sometimes even cheaper.”
The incorporation of mothers to work and loss of traditional family habits influence this trend leads us away from good food to fall in bakery products, excess carbohydrates and the temptation of fried. “The Mediterranean diet requires more effort, perhaps a few dollars more expensive and requires a planning exercise at the time of purchase, but the benefit to health is priceless,” said Javier Aranceta.
It is increasingly high percentage of diseases and conditions related to nutritional deficiencies that can be prevented through a healthy diet. Foods that make up the Mediterranean diet are rich in antioxidants and can prevent even psychological problems such as depression. According to the magazine “American Archives of General Psychiatry,” the population has a high adherence to a Mediterranean diet reduced by forty percent the risk of falling into a depression.
However, according to various experts to participate in the Hall of the Mediterranean Diet (Madrid 22-25 October), the food base is also the healthiest, the most necessary. “Recover the Mediterranean diet; says the professor of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Lluis Serra-Majem is such an important issue such as climate change.” The doctor said that the impact of the loss of these habits can be catastrophic, “since this diet keeps the economy and cultural traditions.”