Rekia Belahsen

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: The Med Diet 4.0 can contribute to the revitalization of the Mediterranean diet by improving its current perception not only as a healthy diet but also a sustainable lifestyle model, with country-specific and culturally appropriate variations.

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: The major goal to prevent CVD should begin by preventing obesity through physical exercise and healthy nutrition, and the nutritional prevention policy required should encourage population to adhere to the Mediterranean model.

TL;DR: The results indicated that women's rating of ideal body size was significantly larger than their rating of healthy body size, and women not satisfied with their body size were more likely to report trying to gain weight rather than to lose it.