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. 2011 Dec;14(12A):2285-7.
doi: 10.1017/S1368980011002527.

Sustainable diets: the Mediterranean diet as an example

Barbara Burlingame  1 , Sandro Dernini
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Sustainable diets: the Mediterranean diet as an example

Barbara Burlingame et al. Public Health Nutr. 2011 Dec.

Abstract

Objective: To present the Mediterranean diet as an example of a sustainable diet, in which nutrition, biodiversity, local food production, culture and sustainability are strongly interconnected.

Design: Review of notions and activities contributing towards the acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet.

Setting: The Mediterranean region and its populations.

Subjects: Mediterranean populations.

Results and conclusions: The acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet needs the development of new cross-cutting intersectoral case studies to demonstrate further the synergies among nutrition, biodiversity and sustainability as expressed by the Mediterranean diet for the benefit of present and future generations.

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