Simple challenges for a complicated year: break your love affair with meat, in seven days

"Never in history has so much meat been included in meals as now, it is outrageous," says Julia Wärnberg, PhD in Nutrition and professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malaga.

The specialist leads the Predimed Plus study on the Costa del Sol, which analyzes the benefits of the

Mediterranean diet

and how it lowers the risk of long-term cardiovascular or degenerative diseases.

This traditional diet only includes three or four weekly meat servings, understanding that each one reaches 100 grams (and this includes white meat and fish).

"That is healthy," he says, and remembers how stews, stews or paella usually carry it, but in very small quantities.

It is not a matter of frightening us with what we consume, but of knowing that it is best if they are small amounts, recalls Giuseppe Russolillo, president of the Spanish Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: “With a portion of protein foods a day - eggs, cheese or dairy products— and the occasional white meat and fish, we get the necessary proteins ”.

The perfect example is the Mediterranean diet, which "is mainly based on plant foods, but it is also a lifestyle that includes other issues such as physical activity", clarifies the expert.

With all this evidence, we propose the challenge of

learn to embrace a

greener

diet

, in just seven days

.

The planet will also appreciate it.

Here you have the complete challenge.

Day 1. Load up on reasons: the weak points of the meat industry

Day 2. Make time to cook

Day 3. If you really want to be less polluting, take a good look at where you buy your vegetables

Day 4. Craving for chicken?

You can too

Day 5. Do you feel bloated?

Beware of legumes and ultra-processed ones

Day 6. It's Saturday.

Make a special plate

Day 7. Cheese and other dairy products, are they also a problem?