This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at El Marm apuesta por proteger la dieta mediterránea para salvaguardar y valorizar el aceite de oliva

The bet Marm to protect the Mediterranean diet to safeguard and enhance the olive oil

14/05/2009

May 14, 2009

The Assistant Director-general of planning and Control food of the Marm, Isabel Bombal, committed to the protection of the Mediterranean diet as a way to "safeguard and enhance" to the olive oil in all its aspects. During a presentation held in Espacioinnova, during Expoliva 2009, Bombal stressed that olive oil is in the "backbone" of the Mediterranean diet given its organoleptic properties, nutritional benefits and uses in cosmetics, as well as their impact in the field of cultureart, landscape, social and economic.

"When breakfast toast with oil should think that we are also protecting the legacy which is olive oil," said the deputy general director of planning and Control food of the Marm in anecdotal tone. With regard to the nomination of the Mediterranean diet to become Unesco Cultural heritage, Bombal explained that pioneer in Unesco, is a project which is the first time that one of the candidates for this award is an "intangible element". In spite of this, the representative of the Ministry claimed to be "excited" and"convinced" that it is possible to achieve this goal.