Most nutritionists agree that typical Greek fare — high in whole grains, vegetables, and olive oil– comprise one of the healthiest diets available. Yet contemporary Greek obesity rates now rank among the highest in Europe.
Correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson examine how the modern lifestyle of long work hours and abundant fast food have eroded traditional Greek eating habits — and how some Greeks now are fighting back to reclaim their “slow food” heritage.
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Get recipes and see Nikos and Lola Frantzeskakis cook up some healthy — and delicious — dishes in Vamos, Crete.
12/05/2009 :: 06:52:24 PM
Laura Blumenthal Says:
When I was in Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece, this past summer, I heard about another threat to the traditional Mediterranean diet there - they can no longer get fruits and vegetables that are locally grown! Instead, vegetables are being imported from places as far afield as New Zealand, and there’s no choice anymore. The vegetables are no longer those juicy, tasty, locally grown ones that I remember from earlier visits to Greece. Now they are the same pasty, tasteless ones we get here in North America.