TY - JOUR
T1 - Commentary on: “Implementing a Mediterranean-Style Diet Outside the Mediterranean Region”
AU - Klonizakis, Markos
AU - Alkhatib, Ahmad
AU - Middleton, Geoff
PY - 2018/7/9
Y1 - 2018/7/9
N2 - As a team, which is probably the first to have purposely demonstrated the cardioprotective effectiveness of implementing a Mediterranean diet (MD) in the UK, we welcome an enthusiastic article promoting the MD in another non-Mediterranean country. However, to successfully raise awareness and convince policy-makers to alleviate any implementation fears, articles investigating this area need to be well-researched and have critical attention to the feasibility of implementing this particular diet into ‘westerners’ diets. This trait was missing from the article written by Murphy & Parletta for a previous edition of the journal
AB - As a team, which is probably the first to have purposely demonstrated the cardioprotective effectiveness of implementing a Mediterranean diet (MD) in the UK, we welcome an enthusiastic article promoting the MD in another non-Mediterranean country. However, to successfully raise awareness and convince policy-makers to alleviate any implementation fears, articles investigating this area need to be well-researched and have critical attention to the feasibility of implementing this particular diet into ‘westerners’ diets. This trait was missing from the article written by Murphy & Parletta for a previous edition of the journal
U2 - 10.1007/s11883-018-0744-8
DO - 10.1007/s11883-018-0744-8
M3 - Comment/debate
SN - 1523-3804
VL - 20
SP - 44
EP - 45
JO - Current Atherosclerosis Reports
JF - Current Atherosclerosis Reports
IS - 45
ER -