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Food is the main source of our daily energy and one cannot dismiss the importance of good nutrition and nourishment through an informed scientific eating regime.

The common saying 'You are what you eat' stands to reason. Today with all the technology and data available we have been able to trace and cross-link the underlying causes of disease and well being to cultural and social eating patterns. For example, the European Commission on Nutrition in a conference at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, concluded that high olive oil consumption in the Mediterranean region contributes to the low incidence of cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in these countries.

In 1992 similar facts arrived from another conference of Nutritionists, this time from Harvard University USA, which recognised the relative health advantages of the traditional Mediterranean diet and its value in the prevention of cancers, a disease much experienced in the modern world far removed from its agricultural roots.

Well before all technology could provide us with scientific data, a Greek physician, Hippocrates (400BC), knew the importance and value of correct nutrition and diet and urged the citizens to treat food as medicine.

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