Comparison of Mediterranean, Western and Japanese Diets and Some Recommendations

Abstract

During the past thousands of years, food systems, and thus human diets, have been and are shaped byclimate, terrain, seasons, location, culture, and technology. In this context, many types of diet patterns haveemerged. Nowadays, numerous epidemiological studies are being conducted in many countries in order to findrelationships between empirically identified dietary factors and the occurrence of illnesses. Today, some dietarypatterns are described as healthy eating models while others are generally qualified as unhealthy.

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