This book illustrates the role of Mediterranean diet in connection with well-being and
particularly its impact on health and elderly care as well as on the mechanisms of aging.
Aging is a natural process of human life. The knowledge that a healthy dietary regimen like the
Mediterranean diet can effectively prevent or delay many diseases typically affecting aging
people may help to better manage the aging process. From this point of view knowledge of the
numerous benefits of the Mediterranean-style diet may effectively promote better management of
the burden of elderly care. As early as the 1950s Ancel Keys pointed out the effectiveness of
the Mediterranean diet in helping to control and possibly avoid myocardial infarction and or
cholesterol metabolism. Quite soon after the first studies were published it became clear that
the Mediterranean diet was beneficial not only in connection with cardiovascular disease but
also many other diseases from diabetes to hypertension from cancer and thrombosis to
neurodegenerative diseases including dementia. Examining those benefits in detail this book
offers a valuable educational tool for young professionals and caregivers as well as for
students and trainees in Geriatrics and Nutrition.
