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From 05/05/2014 to 10/05/2014

Food pyramid and Mediterranean diet

Food Pyramid (human diet)

.

The food pyramid

includes: • cereals and

derivatives (at the base of the pyramid),

• Vegetables, • Fresh fruit, • Milk ,dairy

products • Meat, fish, eggs , • Sugar and fat (at the top of the

pyramid)

In the new pyramid were kept six groups of foods, but the horizontal stripes have been replaced with six vertical ones of different colours, namely from left to right:

• Orange :cereals and derivatives; • Green: vegetables • Red : fresh fruit • Yellow: oil and fats • Blue: dairy products • Purple: meat, fish.

The Mediterranean diet is a nutritional model inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of three European and one African countries in the Mediterranean basin: Italy, Greece, Spain and Morocco.

Fruits and vegetables are

good for people’s health.

Foods considered "healthy" may be natural foods, organic foods,

 whole foods, and sometimes dietary supplements.Such products are sold in health

food stores or in the health/organic sections of

supermarkets.

The meat is a staple food to be able to

lead a healthy diet.However meat

contains proteins useful for our body.

Vegetables are the most important food for a good nutrition.

They are rich of vitamins and

minerals. They have a low content of

calories.

Fish has a high nutritional value and it contains

vitamins, iron and phosphorus.

Mediterranean diet is typical from Italy and a lot of countries around the

Mediterranean sea.

Here’s an example of what a person can eat a day according to the mediterranean diet.

Breakfast:-Fruit-Cafe or milk -Jam

Lunch:-pasta or rice-meat or fish -bread-vegetables-fruit

Dinner:-soft soup-vegetables-some bread-fruit

Typical Italian food &…

• Italian cuisine is characterized by its simplicity, with many dishes having few ingredients. Ingredients and dishes vary by region. Italian cuisine has developed over the centuries. Typical Italian food are for example: pasta, pizza, variety of cheeses, cannoli, oil, tomatoes

Obesity!

CAUSES OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY Childhood obesity has a multifactorial origin;

Rare are the cases of obesity involved to hormonal abnormalities such as hypothyroidism or adrenal malfunction.

The most of obesity events are produced by a wrong relationship with unhealthy food!!

Finally food is a way to unite all countries.