Spanish diet is the healthiest on earth – it's official
Monday, January 14, 2019 @ 1:04 PM
A MEDITERRANEAN diet has long been hailed as one of the most healthy on earth, even though it is said to be in decline in Spain and is far less likely to be the régime of choice in inland areas, where red meat – including all the fatty bits, and even tripe – are more likely to be served up for the family dinner than grilled fish and salad. But Spaniards are still, statistically, the European race which eats best – in fact, fewer people in Spain die from conditions caused by a poor diet than anywhere else on the continent.
Yet another great reason to up sticks and move to the land of Cervantes and cerveza, along with its beautiful countryside, stunning monuments and mild, sunny climate – albeit the latter seems a distant memory at the moment, with an Arctic front sending temperatures down to around -12ºC inland and an early-morning 4ºC on the coast.
It's no myth – Spain's diet is the best if you want to live long and healthily, and that's a scientific fact; at least, according to extensive research by the Martin-Luther Universität in Halle-Wittenberg and Friedrich Schiller Universität in Jena, both in Germany, carried out over more than a quarter of a century between 1990 and 2016 in every country in Europe recognised as such by the World Health Organisation (WHO), 51 in total.
Over this time, diet, lifestyle, preferences and availability of foodstuffs, along with trends for more international, hitherto lesser-known ingredients and 'superfoods', have changed dramatically, but the results of the research – published in Science Daily – remain constant, according to the team.
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