Having been working for more than 3 years in an EU-funded project on Local Mediterranen Diet, the FAO warning that populations in the Mediterranean basin are abandoning their traditional food habits, doesn’t come to me as a surprise. One of the main objectives of the above mentioned project, in fact, has been the conservation of traditional food and health knowledge.
The latest FAO analysis was presented at a recent meeting of the California Mediterranen Consortium.

“The European diet has become too fat, too salty and too sweet,” he concluded, adding that the traditional diet, which some advocates have campaigned to be placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, has “declined into a moribund state”. (read more)