Mediterranean diet as a lifestyle and dynamic food pattern

Abstract

This Supplement of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition includes the proceedings of conferences presented at the XI International Mediterranean Diet Conference entitled Mediterranean Diet as a Lifestyle and Dynamic Food Pattern, which was held in Barcelona on April 2016 in the framework of the International Food and Beverage Exhibition, Alimentaria 2016 [1]. This year was the 20th anniversary of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation (MDF), the institution that has been devoted to spreading the advances of this food pattern and way of life since 1996, date in which the first International Congress on the Mediterranean Diet was held and the Barcelona Declaration on the Mediterranean Diet enacted. The MDF has been involved in the definition of the Mediterranean diet and its representation as a pyramid.