"In an Italy that is a world symbol of the Mediterranean diet and healthy eating, today we see, thanks to the pandemic, an increase in eating disorders. About 3 million Italians suffer from anorexia and bulimia, of which 95% are women and above all girls between 15 and 19 years. This photograph cannot leave us indifferent. After the appeal to the Government for food education to be included among the subjects of study from elementary school to university, as the Guido Carli Foundation we are launching a battle for stylists and advertisers to affirm in their contents the 'curvy' model, deleting dysfunctional models with respect to nutrition and therefore well-being from the cultural imaginary promoted.
The Italian cultural industry has, together with the family and the school, a historical responsibility in this sense: it must forge a solid alliance with our young people to support and encourage models of healthy and balanced nutrition, which preserve health and gastronomic culture. which makes us famous and envied in the world ". Thus the president of the Guido Carli Romana Liuzzo Foundation, launches Oscar Farinetti's lectio magistralis" Food, the sublime obsession.
Nutrition and its drifts between pleasure and necessity ", which will also be attended by the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri, the honorary president of the Gianni Letta Foundation and the deputy Maria Elena Boschi on February 25 at 17.00 in the Aula Magna Mario Arcelli of the Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.
"There are so many psychological factors that lead to these serious dysfunctions that I dare not go into them, however I remember that, if the parents were equipped with agri-food education and passed it on to their children, the phenomenon would be decidedly reduced. I give you a trivial example: bread and jam, perhaps bread made from stone-ground organic flours and handmade with mother yeast, and jam without preservatives from organic fruit: they cost less than an industrial snack and make you enjoy double On this serious theme, bulimia and anorexia, I remember with pleasure that the Guido Carli Foundation has embarked on a project that I find original and very useful at the same time, because it addresses the real psychological knot of those who, when confronted, give in to discouragement. In practice, they try to encourage the advent of a new dimension ofimage, inviting stylists and advertisers to use so-called curvy women, an ideal of beauty closer to reality ", declared Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti.