A group of researchers from the Red Predimed University of Navarra have developed a basic questionnaire to determine whether the dietary pattern of a person’s quality or if it follows the traditional Mediterranean diet. Also to predict rates of obesity, specifically abdominal obesity.
The questionnaire was made as an experiment in more than 7,000 people and assessed the quality of this diet. The test consists of 14 questions, the higher the score the better your relationship to a healthy life with lower rates of obesity and its results were made public in the document “Tool of the Mediterranean diet and the assessment rates obesity among high-risk individuals: the trial PREDIMED “published in the journal” PLoS One “
According to the press release describes the University of Navarre, who obtained 10 or more points on the 11.4% had less abdominal obesity, unlike respondents who drew seven or fewer points.