The Mediterranean diet is a nutritional model inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of the Mediterranean, particularly by Italy, Greece, Spain and Morocco.
In summary this is a healthy eating style characterized by more grains, vegetables, fresh fruit, olive oil and fish oil, to be chosen to foods too high in animal protein, fat and sugar.
You have to remember that is also important to combine it with a healthy exercise!
Thanks of this features the Mediterranean diet is the ideal lifestyle to reduce the incidence of so-called “diseases of affluence” (diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity and cardiovascular diseases).