The Mediterranean diet has several health benefits. It is high in monounsaturated fatty acids from olive oil, which reduces cholesterol levels. It also includes foods like fish, cereals, fruits, vegetables, nuts and red wine in moderation. The pyramid structure of the diet emphasizes cereals, fruits and vegetables, followed by dairy and proteins. In comparison, fast food is high in fat, salt, sugar and calories from processed foods. The modern fast food industry was enabled by hydrogenation techniques in the early 20th century.
2. BENEFITS
The causes of such properties seem to be in the
highest consumption of products
rich in monounsaturated fatty acids, found in olive
oil (which
reduces the level of cholesterol in blood).
Also attributed to the consumption of fish,
especially oily fish, rich in fatty
acids and, finally, moderate consumption of red
wine (by their elders).
3. The pyramid diet is based Mediterránia cereals like wheat, then as
important link fruit and vegetables and finally through dairy and
vegetable proteins.
The diet combines food Mediterránia considering that you need to
consume more of one food than another and cooked to your liking. You
can make very healthy meals Mediterránia diet , low in fat and
minimally processed because they are mostly fresh products that are
tasty by themselves without condiments. To cook nothing better than
garlic and onion.
4.
5. Properties:
Olive oil
Provides most of the fats in the diet Mediterrania.
Not only is consumed in the form of olive oil but also
as raw.
6. Properties:
Cereals
Much bread wheat flour and rice in less quantity.
Cereals should be taken without shed their hulls, ie
that are comprehensive.
7. Properties:
Fruit
To have the fiber intake of vitamin C and
carbohydrates your body needs every day, you need
to take at least three or four pieces of fruit.
8. Properties:
Nuts
Nuts are high in fat, protein and minerals like
calcium and iron. They are especially recommended
for those with heavy wear at work.
9. Properties:
Fish
Protein and almost no fat if fat white fish and
beneficial to the body if bluefish. At least take it twice
a week.
10. Properties:
Meat
Meat is not necessary to take each day. White meat
twice a week and red meat only once a month,
because cholesterol level increases.
11. Properties:
Dairy.
have too much fat and not to abuse them.
Are desirable skimmed or semi-skimmed because
they contain milk proteins but without the fat.
13. History of Fast Food
• Nobel laureate Paul Sabatier worked in the 1890s to
develop the chemistry of hydrogenation which enabled the
margarine, oil hydrogenation, and synthetic methanol
industries. While Sabatier only considered hydrogenation
of vapours, the German chemist Wilhelm Normann showed
in 1901 that liquid oils could be hydrogenated and
patented the process in 1902.
14. FAST fOOD
• In 1909, Procter & Gamble acquired the US rights to the
Normann patent; in 1911, they began marketing the first
hydrogenated shortening, Crisco (composed largely of
partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil).
• Further success came from the marketing technique of
giving away free cookbooks in which every recipe called for
Crisco. Hydrogenation strongly stimulated whaling, as it
made it possible to stabilize whale oil for human
consumption.
15. Over millennia the Mediterranean peoples have settled habits and
recognizable own move to the table and distinct cultures and unique
landscapes. Iberians, Celts, Greeks, Romans, Barbarians and
Arabs, have helped create the current "Mediterranean trilogy" of bread,
oil and wine. From the Near and Middle East reached the
Mediterranean cereals, legumes, carrots, onion, garlic, plum, peach,
cherry, apricot, apple, pear, walnut, hazel and chestnut .
From Europe come beets, chicory, cabbage and asparagus, the Far
East, chickpeas, sesame, cucumber, eggplant, mustard, basil, citrus,
millet India, South East Asia and Oceania rice, rosemary, pepper,
sesame, cardamom, ginger, basil, cucumber, cider, sugar cane,
African, melon, watermelon, dates, and America, corn , bean, potato,
tomato, peppers, zucchini, squash.
Few Mediterranean meals would be imaginable without these
contributions. With these inputs, configured one of the healthiest
dietary models of the world.
16. Modern science has revealed in the second half
of the twentieth century the exceptional nature of
the Mediterranean lifestyle and its influence on
the health of the population.