This week the Mediterranean Diet children’s workshops on fruit and health have started, to promote the consumption of fruit in schools in the Canary Islands. This first stage will end in December 2009 and the second stage will take place from January 2010 to May 2010 with the goal of reaching approximately 11,000 children between [...]

Isabel BombalIn a ceremony held October 22nd at the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs, chaired by the Minster Elena Espinosa, the new Director General pledge her office in presence of the Secretary of State for Rural and Water Affairs Josep Puxeu, the Ministry Assistant Secretary, Santiago Menéndez de Luarca and Alicia Villauriz [...]

Conference on Intangible HeritageThe Department of Fine Arts and Cultural Goods of the General Branch of the Institute of Cultural Heritage of Spain hosted, together with the General Department of Museums and the General Department of Heritage, a Conference on the Protection of Intangible Heritage held from October 14th to 16th in Teruel.
This conference was [...]

The FDM beings its collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Canary Government to carry out the necessary accompanying measures to ensure the effectiveness of the Fruit program’s strategy in schools. The strategies include the dissemination of the plan to families, associations and federations of student parents, outreach to health professionals, publishing and dissemination [...]

During the 19th, 20th and 21st of this month the V Valldigna-Mediterranean Forum and the V Multaqa of the Three Cultures that this edition were devoted to the Mediterranean Diet as heritage of the UNESCO. During the meeting all the aspects that made the “Mediterranean Diet” were discussed, a paradigm of global health and an [...]

The Mediterranean Diet Foundation in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, realized yesterday June 17th  2009, a Mediterranean Diet workshop with the young participants of the 1st Ibero-American Youth Forum of the World Heritage, at the Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Arts (CAAC) in Seville. Young boys and girls, from 12 to [...]

Archives of General Psychiatry, prestigious psychiatric journal, has just published the findings of a study coordinated by the University of Navarra which shows that following the Mediterranean Diet reduces the risk of suffering from depression. The project has used more than 10,000 volunteers who were healthy when the study began. According to Miguel Angel Martinez, [...]

Presenting the creation of the Interactive Fish Center (CIP), a pioneer project, to discover the benefits of fish to children. The President of the Fish Wholesalers Guild of Barcelona and Province and the Mercabarna Central Fish Market, Leandre Serra, and the Director General of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation, Joan Castells, have signed today, September 30th [...]

On October 7th and 8th, the Qualivita Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministries of Agriculture of Italy, France and Spain, organized in Bruxelles, Belgium, the IV European Forum on Food Quality. Following the theme of the previous editions, the general objective of the Forum is to contribute to increasing institutional-entrepreneurial knowledge regarding the role of [...]