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JOURNAL OF DIABETES
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 365-371Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1753-0407.13015
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diet; Jiangnan diet; Mediterranean diet; metabolic syndrome; obesity
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Geographically, the Qinling Mountain-Huai River line divides China into two parts, Northern and Southern. Surprisingly, the line also divides the high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Northern China from the low prevalence of Southern China. In past decades, the diet-center hypothesis has gained much support from the apparent cardiometabolic disease-protection effect of the Mediterranean diet. Questions include the following: Does the diet pattern explain the disease prevalence difference between two parts with similar genetic background? What kind of diet pattern is suitable for future national diet recommendation for Chinese, as the Mediterranean diet does for the Western countries? Here, we review the main healthy diet components, which the native inhabitants in the Yangtze River Delta region have eaten for several hundreds of years, and refer to this healthy diet as Southern River (& x6c5f;(sic))-style dietary pattern or Jiangnan Diet.
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