These master’s degrees are an outgrowth of the newly launched Torribera Mediterranean Center (TMC), a joint project of the University of Barcelona and The Culinary Institute of America to advance scholarship around the traditional, healthy Mediterranean Diet and Mediterranean food and culinary cultures, as well as the contributions such scholarship can make to a variety of fields globally.
The PREDIMED trial is the largest primary prevention trial showing that an intervention to promote a Mediterranean diet is beneficial against the incidence of several major chronic diseases in subjects at high cardiovascular risk, particularly when improved adherence to the Mediterranean diet includes increased consumption of extra virgin olive oil and mixed tree nuts. This…
Healthy Mediterranean Diet to be Focus of New Master’s Degrees Linking Nutrition Science and Public Health Strategy, Sustainability Imperatives, and Culinary Insight Barcelona, September 12, 2018. Today, the University of Barcelona (UB) and The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) announced the creation of the Torribera Mediterranean Center (TMC), a joint initiative and new academic center…
Together, the CIA and Harvard Chan School have developed a toolkit for discerning fact from fiction when it comes to studies related to optimal food choices. Use this resource to understand what can go wrong and what quality markers to look for when evaluating the latest scientific publication. We also invite you to find the Menus…
