“Atlantic Diet: Traditional, Healthy and Sustainable”. This is the title of the conversation with the professor of Pediatrics and President of the Scientific Committee of the Atlantic Diet Foundation, Rosaura Leis, in which the importance of the Atlantic Diet, the diet of our grandparents, is addressed as a health promoter. She also highlights that this dietary pattern is part of a traditional life model that also includes the daily practice of physical activity, enjoyment around the table and the conservation of our cultural and gastronomic traditions.

Throughout the conversation, the doctor highlights the progressive abandonment of these traditional habits in the new generations and the consequent increase in diseases such as overweight and obesity already in pediatric age. She highlights that, if this trend continues, today's children could live less than their parents and grandparents, or at least with a worse quality of life.

For all this, Rosaura Leis calls for the need to transmit our culinary tradition, control toxic habits, and promote a healthy lifestyle.
This conversation took place within the framework of the POCTEP New Heart project, and was funded by the Atlantic Diet Foundation and the European Regional Fund – FEDER through the Interreg VI-A Spain-Portugal Program (POCTEP) 2021-2027.