What is it about?
This review focuses on the origins of the Mediterranean diet from its roots and its relationship to cardiovascular diseases, with an overview of the nutritional mechanisms that influence atherosclerosis.
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Why is it important?
From the ancient Greeks to the present day the Mediterranean diet is considered as one of the healthiest dietary patterns. There is remarkable, strong and consistent evidence to support the benefits of the MeD in heart disease, and no other dietary pattern has been so widely and thoroughly studied in this area. So, today has become the gold standard for healthy eating.
Perspectives
Recent studies support an important link between diet and inflammation and open up new intriguing therapeutic scenarios.
Pierluca MINELLI
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This page is a summary of: The Mediterranean Diet And Cardioprotection: Historical Overview And Current Research, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/jmdh.s219875.
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