Role of Mediterranean Diet in bone health

Mediterranean Diet (MeDi) is a nutritional life style which has been developed in Mediterranean Countries. It is well known to be a balanced diet playing a key role in maintaining the good health of the individual, preventing chronic metabolic diseases, and optimizing genetic inheritance. It involves the presence of all macro- and micronutrients distributed in a balanced manner during the daily meals, with a prevalence of food of vegetal origin, such as cereals, legumes and olive oil, used as main dressing. Numerous recent studies have demonstrated the protective role of the MeDi on the skeleton, confirming that a definite and correct dietary approach such as MeDi can play an important key environmental factor for the maintenance on bone health and the prevention of osteoporosis.