a n e a n d i e t history amp origins A N C E L K E Y S I N F L U E N C E Ancel Keys was a nutritionist credited with the development of K rations for the ID: 931163
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the mediterranean diet
…history & origins…♥
Slide2ANCEL KEYS INFLUENCEAncel Keys was a nutritionist credited with the development of "K rations" for the USArmy. He noted that men who lived in the mountains of Crete and ate a traditional Cretan diet had low rates of heart disease and cancer and lived to a very old age.He instituted a 15-year, seven-nation study to investigate how different regional diets affected disease rates and mortality. He looked at Greece, Finland, Japan, Italy , the Netherlands and the United States to see how the diets compared.He lived in Pioppi , a little village in Cilento, and he found that people who followed what he called a Mediterranean diet had lower rates of death due to cardiovascular diseases
or cancer than people in countries like the United States, which had much higher disease rates.Keys found the Mediterranean diet had fewer saturated fats, less dairy consumption and more fruit, vegetables and nuts than the other diets he studied.
Slide3…but what is mediterranean diet?
The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation originally inspired by the dietary patterns of Greece,
Southern Italy, and Spain
in the 1940s and 1950s. The principal aspects of this diet include proportionally high consumption of
olive oil,
legumes, unrefined cereals
, fruits, and
vegetables, moderate to high consumption of fish, moderate consumption of dairy products (mostly as cheese and yogurt), moderate
wine
consumption, and low consumption of
meat
and
meat
products.