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Around the year 1000 AD, the eating habits of the European continent and of the Mediterranean area could be referred mainly to two well-defined models, which in turn derived from the two main European civilizations: the “classical” civilization and the “barbarian” civilization, which were very different one from the other and had been for a long time strongly pitted against each other.
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Capurso, A., Crepaldi, G., Capurso, C. (2018). The Historical Origins and Composition of Mediterranean Diet. In: Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet in the Elderly Patient. Practical Issues in Geriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78084-9_1
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