Mediterranean diet (MD) has long been considered a landmark in healthy nutrition, but changing eating habits has meant that people have become less adherent to it. The younger population lost the connection with traditional foods while older people experience life changes that result in significant swaps in their diet. Despite this, both groups could benefit from a diet rich in antioxidants that has been shown to help prevent disease over the long term. PROMEDLIFE aims to reverse, through a multi-actor approach, the decline in adherence to the MD pattern, adopting four lines of intervention.
PROMEDLIFE will analyze socio-economic, cultural and personal factors driving consumers in adopting a healthy Mediterranean lifestyle.
PROMEDLIFE will promote tailored and country-specific actions using “learning through play and living labs approaches” targeting primary and high school students and their families/carers.
PROMEDLIFE will create and test new healthy snacks targeted at young and older adults, based on traditional Mediterranean premium ingredients such as saffron, dates, argan oil, selected vegetables.
PROMEDLIFE will valorise local Mediterranean products through the development of food labelling using innovative tools to increase people’s connection with their cultural and local heritage and improve their awareness of food healthy choices.
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Open day JSI -PROMEDLIFE
Date: March 23, 2024Location: JSI, Department of Environmental Sciences, SloveniaEvery year, the Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI) organizes the Open Day, where the public is given an insight into the work of the JSI.In connection with the PROMEDLIFE project, JSI researchers presented the aims of the project and led a workshop on important topics related to…
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Promedlife Second Annual Meeting
The second annual meeting of the Promedlife Project will take place in Rabat (Morocco) on April 18-19.The meeting is organized by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique “INRA”. Contact person: Kaoutar Elfazazi / Nadia Houmy (INRA)
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Scientific Symposium on “Valorization of Natural Bioresources in Functional Nutrition
The members of INSAT-UCAR actively participated in the Scientific Symposium on “Valorization of Natural Bioresources in Functional Nutrition,” organized by the Higher School of Food Industries of Tunis (ESIAT) of the University of Carthage (UCAR) in collaboration with the Technological Innovation and Food Safety (LITSA) Research Laboratory (1st, 2nd March 2024).
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This project has received funding from the PRIMA programme supported by the European Union | Grant agreement No 2132