Irony…
According to the FAO, the Mediterranean Diet is on the decline…in the Mediterranean.
Hailed by experts as keeping people slim, healthy and long-lived, the Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world – but is increasingly disregarded around the Mediterranean.
According to FAO Senior Economist Josef Schmidhuber, over the past 45 years the famed diet revolving around fresh fruit and vegetables has “decayed into a moribund state” in its home area.
…Schmidhuber attributes the change in eating habits not only to increased income but to factors such as the rise of supermarkets, changes in food distribution systems, working women having less time to cook, and families eating out more, often in fast-food restaurants. At the same time, calorie needs have declined, people exercise less and they have shifted to a much more sedentary lifestyle.
Sounds just like us, doesn’t it?
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Rob on 11 Aug 2008 at 6:48 am #
What I’m about to say doesn’t relate 100% to the subject. But just yesterday as I was standing in line at a McDonalds just to get a quick cup of coffee I lamented about the menu which btw is no more heinous than a DQ, Wendy’ or Burger King etc.
The menus leave few options to get something halfway nutritious other than a grape something salad with nuts and other entress like grilled chicken patties with their bleached buns.
Do they really think that the only thing people will buy from them is food that is composed of so much sugar and fat that just one serving amounts to half an average persons daily caloric intake with 1/10 the nutrients?
I know the whole business is about speed and convenience but I believe if people were given some better choices along with of the same old fast food composition they have pushed for the last 40 – 50 years that people would (suprisingly) buy it.
The fact that food that is good for you can taste good too has already been proven. To just keep the disgusting food choices so limited is just plain wicked.