One of the most outstanding civilization of the Mediterranean is that have the influenced other cultures around the globe is the grandeur and the historic events. The location of the Mediterranean let’s their people easily expose their life style to the others. The Mediterranean develops into a cauldron for the cultures from India, china and Mesopotamia. They also have to history about their interaction with the others country which located around the Mediterranean Sea. It’s also the central of the origin of the trade, transport, as well as the culture exchanges between many people from different background. Its history also important in order to understand the other cultures which develop from the Mediterranean culture, like the Turkish cultures, Roman, Greek, Arab, Egyptian, Persian, Phoenician and the Mesopotamian cultures. The Western civilization cultures also have developed from the Mediterranean one.

Conversely, now once we mentioned about Mediterranean, most of us will have the picture of the food in mind instead of their important part in contributed the humanity in term of the history and cultures. The principle of the Mediterranean diets is those of the rich with the important and essential nutrients which the body need in fighting with the obesity and the heart diseases. Still, there are the differences in their cultures, foods and society among the country in the Mediterranean. However, the consumption of the olive oil is the outstanding which represent the whole Mediterranean cultures.

In the comparison with the American diets, the Mediterranean diets comply with more fresh and natural foods not those such processed fruit and imported products. The Mediterranean diets is more likely contain a low level of the diary product consumption, as well as the fish and poultry, little red meat and eggs and alcohols.

The foods are contained quite high amount of a good oil, which their people are more healthy than those who have high amount of other type of oils in the American diets. The fish that they eat is more likely those types of fish which contain more omega-3. Besides, the way they cook foods is with no use of trans fat or the rancid vegetable oils.

People who are on the classic Mediterranean diet , which rich in vegetables, fruits, olive oil, cereals and fish are believed to live healthier and longer

The study conducted by the researcher in the University of Athens and Harvard School of Public Health had recorded on the diets and eating habits of 22,000 of the Greek. The results showed that the person with the Mediterranean diets are more likely to less suffer from coronary heart disease, cancer or less die during the research.

Such results of low incident of the sigh or symptom of heart disease and rate of death in the countries in the Mediterranean have resulted from other countries to look for help from their neighbors with their diet.

Nevertheless, the studies have not yet conclude whether the Mediterranean diet or the life style of the people there itself that encounter the healthier and has lower rate of deaths and the diagnosed of heart diseases. There are more studies need to do in before you jump into this type of diets.