THE HIDDEN TURNING POINTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET: A TOOL FOR HEALTH AND AGRO-FOOD POLICIES. RATING OUT OF FIFTY YEARS, AND 22 COUNTRIES

The purpose of this study is to develop a method to identify the radical changes in the Mediterranean adequacy index (MAI) trend for monitoring and modifying food and prevention policies. The development of a statistical solver demonstrates that the evolution of the MAI over time (1961-2013) in the EU countries, the USA and Japan is at least bi-parted. In most countries, often two successive conflicting tendencies emerge, whose intersection is...