The Mediterranean diet is good for you (if you are rich)

Is the Mediterranean diet good for you? Apparently only if you are rich, or affluent. Perhaps for the first time an Italian study associates the benefits of the Mediterranean diet with people’s per capita income, discovering that the Mediterranean diet is good for those who can afford it. But what does it mean? It means that, among the principles of the Mediterranean diet, the quality of food is not important, but it is essential:local fish, seasonal and presumably fresh fruit and vegetables, extra virgin olive oil, whole grains instead of refined ones. Foods that weigh more and more on the pockets of Italians, marking a watershed between those who can afford to do the “real” Mediterranean diet and those who do the “supermarket” Mediterranean diet, rich in refined products, industrial preparations such as sauces and sauces , of sausages, and poor in both fresh and local products.
Things that obviously affect health by affecting the quality of the diet.

According to scholars from the Neuromed Mediterranean Neurological Institute, engaged for years in the Moli-sani project, which studies a very large sample of the Molise population, out of 19 thousand men and women who follow the Mediterranean diet, only those with higher income and higher education (not always but often associated with a family income major) have shown health advantages in following the model of the Mediterranean diet, which I remind you of being a UNESCO heritage site. People of lower income and education did not have the same health benefits, because their dietary model was of lower quality : fewer fresh products, less differentiation, less attention to the quality of food, local and fresh, wholemeal.

In short: the Mediterranean diet is good for you, if you can afford it.