When it comes to proper nutrition, who does not think of the famous food pyramid? Not that of Cheops, therefore, but the one that divides foods into food groups. At the base we have the foods that we must eat regularly, every day. At the top the things we have to eat infrequently.
But the latest research has thrown some disturbing lights on what we believed to be correct, starting from the conception of the Mediterranean diet. Where did it come from? And are we sure that this model of virtuous nutrition, full of whole grains and vegetables, but low in saturated fats, as noted by the famous Ancel Keys, has ever been followed by Italians?

Mediterranean diet: is the food pyramid wrong?

The book by the author of ” Death from the food pyramid “, Denise Minger, is based on these new researches . Minger is a blogger who became famous for being the first to refute the theories of the China Study on the binomial animal protein / disease.

The book is in English only, and makes a comparison between the Paleo diet, the vegetarian diet and the Mediterranean diet.

The author notes that there are things that are banned in all three diets.
Refined foods, for example. But is it true that if I eat wholemeal I improve my health and if I eat common pasta or white bread I can gain weight? The answer is: it depends.
But there is also an accusation against the guidelines on proper nutrition, all driven by lobbying interests and very distant from dealing with people’s health.

In particular, we wonder about the role of fats at the table: is it true that they are bad?

Is it true that saturated fats are linked to heart disease risk?

After discovering that foods that contain cholesterol such as eggs are not directly linked to hypercholesterolemia , that some saturated fats can even be good for health, Denise wonders about one point: who decided the rules of the Mediterranean diet? And who is the food pyramid that we consider so genuinely local?