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Decades
of research has confirmed the health-giving
benefits of traditional Mediterranean
and Asian dietary and lifestyle practices
(see Scientific
Research). In fact, the evidence of
these benefits is so strong that respected
members of the scientific and medical
communities decided in the 1990s to fully
educate the Western public on the merits
of this way of living.
The great pyramids
At
an international conference in San Francisco,
California, in 1994, a group of experts
from three major organizations—Oldways
Preservation Trust, Harvard School
of Public Health and the World Health
Organization—released the Traditional
Healthy Mediterranean Diet Pyramid.
The
aim of the pyramid was simple: to illustrate,
in a graphical form, the traditional healthy
dietary and lifestyle practices of Mediterranean
cultures. It's based on a culmination
of research dating back to the Seven
Countries Study in the 1950s. The
Mediterranean Diet pyramid was followed
in 1995 by the Traditional Healthy
Asian Diet Pyramid which was developed
by the same organizations as the Mediterranean
pyramid, and also by senior scientists
from Cornell University including Dr.
T. Colin Campbell, director of the massive
China
Study.
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