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Sustainable Food Systems and the Mediterranean Diet.
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- Artificial intelligence attitudes in relation to Mediterranean diet adherence and environmental footprints: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Evaluation of the relationship between sustainable and healthy eating behaviours, phytochemical index, anthropometric measurements, and depression in young adults.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Is the Planeterranean Diet the Key Driver Towards Health and Environment Promotion? A Narrative Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Mediterranean Diet as a Model of Sustainability: Evidence-Based Insights into Health, Environment, and Culture.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet Among Primary School Children in the Tagus Lezíria Region, Portugal: A Study on Eating Habits.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Anxiety for the planet, health for the body: the relationship between eco-anxiety and the Mediterranean diet in Turkish young adults.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2025Article
- Socio-Demographic Determinants of Mediterranean Diet Adherence: Results of the EU-National Health Interview Survey (EHIS-3).Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the relationship between nutrition literacy, Mediterranean diet compliance, ecological footprint and sustainable environmental attitudes in adolescents.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Proposing a unified Mediterranean diet score to address the current conceptual and methodological challenges in examining adherence to the Mediterranean diet.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Global, regional, and national burden of nutritional deficiencies spanning from 1990 to 2021, with a focus on the impacts observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- The Evolution of Dietary Consumption in the Spanish Adult Population and Its Relationship with Environmental Sustainability.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Food inequity and insecurity and MASLD: burden, challenges, and interventions.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024Review
- Climate change versus Mediterranean diet: A hazardous struggle for the women's heart.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2024Article
- Nutritional Barriers to the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in Non-Mediterranean Populations.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Mediterranean Dietary Pattern for Healthy and Active Aging: A Narrative Review of an Integrative and Sustainable Approach.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Underrated aspects of a true Mediterranean diet: understanding traditional features for worldwide application of a "Planeterranean" diet.Journal of translational medicine · 2024Review
- Adherence to the Mediterranean Food Pattern and Carbon Footprint of Food Intake by Employees of a University Setting in Portugal.Nutrients · 2024Observational
- Evaluation of food insecurity and associated factors in women of childbearing age: A community-based study from Turkey.Food science & nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
During the past decade, the concept of sustainability has been added to the factors involved in food security. This has led to a more comprehensive and holistic approach to sustainable food systems which considers drivers-environment, geopolitics, demographics, policy regulations, socio-cultural-economic factors, science and technology and infrastructure. The outcomes, similarly, involve many dimensions-environment, food security and nutrition, health and socio-cultural-economic aspects. This article discusses the Mediterranean diet in the context of sustainable food systems and shows (as in all parts of the world) that there is food insecurity in every country as monitored by the Global Nutrition Index. Three recent, major reports published in 2019 suggest what measures need to be taken to improve sustainable food systems. All environmental analyses agree on the need to promote more plant-based diets-achieved practically by using "more forks than knives". The Mediterranean Diet pattern is a case study for a sustainable diet. It has the best scientific evidence for being healthy, together with economic and socio-cultural benefits. A major challenge is that it is not consumed by the majority of the population in the Mediterranean region, and any solution must involve equity-the socially just allocation of resources. The task now is implementation with multi-stakeholder involvement, in the knowledge that "a well fed nation is a healthy nation is a sustainable and productive nation".
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