Tag Archives: Mediterranean diet

Diets for a Complex World: The search for wholeness

At the beginning of 2019, the EAT–Lancet Commission published Food in the Anthropocene, a consideration of healthy diets from sustainable food systems.1 The authors observed that “A healthy diet should optimize health, defined broadly as being a state of complete … Read the full article

Appropriate Eating: The Mediterranean Diet in Homer’s Odyssey

“There is no boon in life more sweet, I say, than when a summer joy holds all the realm, and banqueters sit listening to a harper in a great hall, by rows of tables heaped with bread and roast meat, … Read the full article

The Mediterranean Diet: how much are the benefits worth?

Writing for The Telegraph online (1st August 2017), Science Editor Sarah Knapton reviews the benefits of following the Mediterranean Diet. Knapton refers to a recent study which suggests that the Mediterranean Diet is only beneficial to those living in households … Read the full article