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Title: Mediterranean diet, culture and heritage: Challenges for a new conception
Author: Medina, F. Xavier  
Others: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Citation: Medina-Luque, F. (2009). Mediterranean Diet, Culture and Heritage: Challenges for a New Conception. Public Health Nutrition, 12(9A), 1618-1620. doi: 10.1017/S1368980009990450
Abstract: The aim of the present article is to discuss the role of the Mediterranean diet as a part of Human Culture and Intangible Cultural Heritage. Until the present, Mediterranean diet has been observed as a healthy model of medical behaviour. After its proposal as a Cultural Heritage of the Humanity at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), Mediterranean diet is actually being observed as a part of Mediterranean culture and starting its concept as an equivalent of Mediterranean Cultural Food System or Mediterranean Culinary System. At the candidacy of Mediterranean diet as a World Cultural Intangible Heritage to be presented at UNESCO in 2008, this new conception is making sense. A new point of view that will be capital in the future discussions about the Mediterranean diet, their challenges and their future perspectives.
Keywords: Mediterranean diet
culture
heritage
UNESCO
Mediterranean culinary system
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009990450
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Issue Date: Sep-2009
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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