How has the Italian diet got worse?

Okay, one reads this title and thinks: but we know. We already know that the Italian diet has been worsening , deviating more and more from that model that Ancel Keys noticed in the south as in other countries of the Mediterranean basin, and which led him to baptize our diet, the “Mediterranean diet”. We eat sweeter and fatter.
And indeed it is. Italians have gradually betrayed the Italian diet, moving away from the Mediterranean model to become more Western.
Over the years, the daily quantity of simple sugars (to be clear, those derived from sucrose, fructose, etc.) has increased, as well as more fats. Until 2014 we ate twice as much meat as in the past, fewer legumes, fewer potatoes.And the consumption of foods containing fiber has halved , as well as foods that provide vitamins and minerals: in a word, we eat fewer vegetables. Finally, we consume more sodium, and, as if that weren’t enough, most of us have a vitamin D deficiency: this means that we are more exposed to problems related to the musculoskeletal system, but also, surprisingly, to more problems. related to blood sugar, because vitamin D regulates the action of insulin

This is partly explained by the fact that we live more indoors and less outdoors, and that we prefer meat between fish and meat, while fish is still not much consumed.
But it doesn’t stop there: the consumption of olive oil is decreasing. In the world but also in Italy.
The reasons for these changes in the Italian diet?
The crisis. Well yes. People cut back on fresh fruit and vegetables, good oil, fish, whole grains.
Let’s add the sedentary lifestyle, the fact that we stay at home instead of going out when it’s nice and we have two important reasons both for the lack of vitamin D and for the worsening of the diet.
It is no coincidence that it is precisely in the south, where the crisis is felt most, that habits are recorded that are far from the Mediterranean tradition for the Italian diet: that is, precisely where the Mediterranean diet was born.