title: Sustainable diets: the Mediterranean diet as an example.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present the Mediterranean diet as an example of a sustainable diet, in which nutrition, biodiversity, local food production, culture and sustainability are strongly interconnected.
  
  
  METHODS
  Review of notions and activities contributing towards the acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Mediterranean region and its populations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Mediterranean populations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The acknowledgement of the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet needs the development of new cross-cutting intersectoral case studies to demonstrate further the synergies among nutrition, biodiversity and sustainability as expressed by the Mediterranean diet for the benefit of present and future generations.
authors.affiliation: Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division, FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Burlingame
authors.forename: Sandro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dernini
mesh_terms: D003469:Culture; D004032:Diet / Q000592:standards*; D038441:Diet, Mediterranean; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005523:Food Supply; D014943:Global Health; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D018673:Nutrition Policy; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control