From the Mediterranean area has been come the modern universal code of food consumption. No need saying that meat is also included in this code, although any excess should be avoided, chiefly in that it is fat.
Pedants object that the word diet is a little big tight to the food habits and tradition at issue.
Also this word would offer too therapeutic a meaning to match the fancy and abundance of the countless gastronomic preparations pertaining to the Mediterranean food traditions. The Mediterranean diet does in fact include nothing at all that could have it mistaken with slimming restrictions and prescriptions. Mediterranean Feeding , they maintain, would certainly suit better. And then let's go back to pasta. The nutritional value of pasta basically depends on that of the flour mix used in its production.