The Mediterranean diet is a model,
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza said at the Italy
pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020.
"The Med diet has been shown to prevent chronic
non-transmissible disease and it favours healthy ageing, it is a
model, developed over the centuries and characterized by frugal
and seasonal food, made of local raw materials and recipes
handed down for generations," he said.
Sapienza also told the UN Action on Nutrition Decade event that
it was necessary for malnutrition programmes "to pay special
attention to the most vulnerable groups, those most affected by
dramatic events like wars, climate change and now COVID-19".
He added that G20 ministers were "working to up access to
healthy diets and sustainable food systems in line with the UN
nutrition action decade to safeguard human health and the
environment.
"Recently the UN food system summit focused on the need to
develop a food system that guarantees sustainable nutrition from
the environmental, social and economic standpoints, and so we
believe it is necessary to promote winning strategies that
produce positive results, therefore it is necessary to promote
diets that are sustainable and healthy".
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