The Perfect Meal: The Secrets of the Mediterranean Diet
Food has a great influence on our well being and our body. Everybody knows that the Mediterranean Diet, consisting of plant based foods like vegetables, grains, nuts, legumes and fruits, with few or no animal products - is good for our health. Only few of us know, however, how particular plants affect different parts of our body, heart and mind or how the food we eat can act as medicine, if used correctly. The Perfect Meal follows five leading international scientists who gradually uncover the secret mechanisms of the Mediterranean Diet and reveal how certain ingredients and combinations of plant based foods can protect us from obesity, cardiovascular diseases, cancers and brain-aging.
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The Perfect Meal, Episode 1: A Mediterranean Discovery
Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes
Upcoming London cook Marianna Leivaditaki returns to her homeland in Chania, Crete, reconnecting with her family and seeking inspiration for her new menu. “People are always looking for the next best diet and the superfoods that ...
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The Perfect Meal, Episode 2: Liquid Gold
Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes
In Pamplona, Spain, a group of scientists have been researching the connection between our health and the food we've been eating since the 1980s. Led by Dr. Miguel Ángel Martínez-González and Dr. Miguel Ruiz Canela, they argue th...
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The Perfect Meal, Episode 3: Garden Superfoods
Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes
How can food be used as preventive medicine? At Harvard University, Dr. Walter Willet has been tracking the diets of 300,000 people for 40 years. “We found that what you eat is incredibly important and that the Mediterranean Diet...
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The Perfect Meal, Episode 4: Food for Thought
Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes
It's lunch time at an elementary school in Gothenburg, Sweden. In the school canteen, the manager checks a list by the Ministry of Health of the daily food that must include five categories of vegetables. Roots, fresh pulses, lea...
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The Perfect Meal, Episode 5: Sustainable Food
Directed by Alexandros Merkouris • Documentary • 2023 • 26 minutes
The Mediterranean Diet is the world's most sustainable food tradition. Developed across the centuries along the shores of the Mediterranean, it is based on seasonality, locality, freshness and minimal processing - helping to give...
