THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET: CARDIOPROTECTIVE EFFECTS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Mediterranean diet is one of the most effective in prevention of cardiovascular pathology. It has been approved evidently in the countries of the Mediterranean region, and demands for efficacy evaluation in populations of other climatic and geographic circumstances, with specific ethnic and religious traditions. In this article, the main studies are explored, in the investigation of Mediterranean diet in countries of non-Mediterranean areas. The problems discussed, of the inhabitants of these countries that interfere with high adherence to such model of nutrition.