Anna Bach-Faig

TL;DR: This review gathers updated recommendations considering the lifestyle, dietary, sociocultural, environmental and health challenges that the current Mediterranean populations are facing and contributes to a much better adherence to this healthy dietary pattern and its way of life with this new graphic representation.

TL;DR: Many countries in the Mediterranean basin are drifting away from the Mediterranean dietary pattern (MDP), however, countries in Northern Europe and some other countries around the world are taking on a Mediterranean-like dietary pattern.

TL;DR: The MDP is presented as not only a cultural model but also as a healthy and environmentally-friendly model, adherence to which, in Spain would have, a significant contribution to increasing the sustainability of food production and consumption systems in addition to the well-known benefits on public health.

TL;DR: The new environmental dimension of the MDP enhances food intake recommendations addressing both health and environmental issues and emphasizes more strongly a lower consumption of red meat and bovine dairy products and a higher consumption of legumes and locally grown eco-friendly plant foods as much as possible.

TL;DR: Examining all the cardiovascular risk factors combined and their relationship with adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) pattern as primary prevention against cardiodiabesity in a holistic approach provided strong evidence on the association between adherence to a MedDiet and a reduced incidence of collective cardioduabesity risk in epidemiological studies.