title: Food consumption and civil society: Mediterranean diet as a sustainable resource for the Mediterranean area.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To define the Mediterranean diet model inside a Mediterranean social and cultural food framework and from the perspective of a local model of consumption.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reflexion and review of literature available in relation to the Mediterranean diet, locality and proximity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mediterranean region and its populations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Mediterranean local food system under the term Mediterranean diet encourages local production and local consumption. From this perspective, this model takes part of every local Mediterranean lifestyles and encourages sustainability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  From a local Mediterranean point of view and as a proximity model of consumption, Mediterranean food and diet can be a sustainable resource for the Mediterranean area.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Systems, Culture and Society, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Mediatic UOC Headquarters Roc Boronat, 117 E-08018 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. fxmedina@uoc.edu
authors.forename: F Xavier
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Medina
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D003469:Culture; D038441:Diet, Mediterranean; D055669:Ecological and Environmental Phenomena; D006801:Humans; D019083:Mediterranean Region