strange eating habits, mediterranean diet, C class, 2012-13

2. • The Mediterranean diet is a
modern nutritional
recommendation inspired by the
traditional dietary patterns of
southern Italy, Greece,
and Spain The principal aspects
of this diet include
proportionally high consumption
of olive oil, legumes, unrefined
cereals, fruits and vegetables,
moderate to high consumption
of fish, moderate consumption
of dairy products (mostly as
cheese and yogurt) and wine,
and low consumption of meat
and meat products.

3. FOOD PYRAMID
Rarely
twice a
week 
Often 
Every day

4. • A diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, beans,
and seeds provides thousands of micronutrients,
antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals that can help protect
against cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease,
Benefits •
among other conditions, experts say.
The multiple factors at work in the Mediterranean diet,
provide health benefits that "cannot be replaced by a
supplement."
• Monounsaturated fats, found in avocado, fish, canola and
olive oils, are anti-inflammatory and fight disease at the
cellular level. And olive oil, with its rich monounsaturated
fat content, has gotten lots of attention. But according to a
study published in The New England Journal of Medicine in
2003, it may not be the olive oil itself, but the interaction
or synergy between all the foods that leads to the health
benefits.
• Studies show the Mediterranean diet's protective effect
against obesity and type 2 diabetes is likely due to its high
proportion of plant foods, fish, and olive oil, along with
moderate consumption of alcohol.
• "A Mediterranean diet is high in fiber, which slows down
digestion, preventing wild swings in blood sugar; reduces
insulin resistance (a precursor of type 2 diabetes and
improves insulin sensitivity to reduce obesity and type 2
diabetes,"

5. STRANGE EATING HABITS
• The cultures around the world have each of them their strange type
of food that is considered not only to be disgusting but it is also
classified as weird, non-eatable, un-appealing etc.
The Veres is a Hungarian dish with origins somewhere around the 15th
century and during that age it was considered a meal of the poor.
Originally was prepared from the blood drained from the pig’s cut
throat. The blood was boiled until merely cooked and minced like meat,
then it was added boiled pig organs also minced and pieces of boiled
bacon.

6. • Nutria is a rodent which likes the water a lot, a
mixture between the water rat and the beaver,
and it is a herbivore animal with a very beautiful
fir. In the beginning they were raised for their fir
but soon during the great famine and the war
became a valuable source of meat.
In France they make soup out of it and in China they prepared almost 40
different dishes among which the weirdest one is that one serving dry nutria
meat in thin slices like carpacio

7. • Typical Asian dish, Korean to be more specific,
this food became popular all over the US and
also in the great cities of Europe where the
Korean restaurants became popular
Initially containing rotted baby worms not
reaching maturity, the recipe became more
elaborate and started using mainly male worms
“harvested” after dieing posterior the female
fertilization.

8. • The latest trend in Chinese kitchen where anything
eatable becomes fair game; this dish is something out
of a horror movie. Setting apart the disgusting idea and
considering only the presentation of this “phallic
gourmet” dish, one’s stomach may turn upside down
at the sight of something purple hanging in a Chinese
meat store or presented on a lettuce platter at dinner.

9. • Casu Marzu is an Italian cheese made in
the island of Sardinia. The strangest part about it
is that in order to achieve the right level of
fermentation close to decomposition, this cheese
is added a species of translucent worms.
This is done so the fat level will be broken down. It
is an ancient recipe and it is supposed to result a
real delicacy which… personally I am not tempted
to try.

10. • In Asia, as the food is concerned, the life puts the
movie out of business. The innocent sweet little
sea horses are considered to be virility source so
in spite of the fact that they are endangered
species, these little creatures continue to appear
as a dish on the menu of the Asian restaurants.
They are boiled in oil and served with mustard
sauce. They are said to be sweet but eating them
seems quite a crime against nature.

11. • Scottish originated, this dish surpasses every
imagination. The stomach of a sheep is
emptied and washed, rolled with onions and
put to bake in the company of turnips and
potatoes.
It is considered a delicacy and became now-a-
days a gourmet dish after being centuries ago the
Scottish poor sheep herder’s traditional food.

12. • The main dish of the African tribes, this
combination of barbecued cow and sheep
intestines and served with herbs like aloe and
cactus is a nasty piece of work.
Of course when hunger is tormenting one’s
stomach, beggars can’t be choosers; but putting it
next to other options in African food this dish fails
by comparison.

13. • Top of the top in the weirdest foods chart, this odd
creation of the human mind recently presented on
Discovery, surpasses any other contestant.
• Drained from slain king cobras in Thailand it is served
as it is or mixed in drinks and is supposed to grant
strange virility increasing and magical healing.
It is a creation of “hunting for money” Asian industry and leaving apart that,
it must taste disgusting; it is a crime against nature. Since a portion costs
around $200-$250 dollars on the black market, soon king cobras will become
extinct.

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