The Mediterranean Foods Alliance (MFA) is an Oldways educational program created to help consumers worldwide discover Mediterranean foods and flavors.   The MFA's innovative programs:

• Explain and promote through traditional and social media why the Mediterranean Diet is healthy and delicious.
• Inspire people everywhere to explore and enjoy a wide variety of foods that are part of the  Mediterranean Diet.
• Support health professionals, including doctors and dietitians, with resources to promote the Mediterranean Diet.
• Help consumers recognize, buy, and cook with healthy and delicious Mediterranean products.
• Celebrate all foods that are central to Mediterranean Diet traditions, and support their wider availability and recognition.

The MFA offers a wide range of resources that center around the Mediterranean diet. Here’s just a sampling of what we do, and how you can get involved:

FOR CONSUMERS
For consumers interested in enjoying healthy eating, the MFA offers…

• Welcome to the Mediterranean Diet, our “Med 101” brochure with 8 simple steps to introduce you to the Med Diet
• Our online database of hundreds of healthy, delicious recipes you can easily prepare at home
• Advice on how healthy eating can be suprisingly affordable

Sign up today. Click here to subscribe to our bi-weekly Fresh Fridays newsletter, with tips and recipes to help you make the Mediterranean Diet central to your life .

FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
For health professionals fighting the tide of obesity and chronic disease, the MFA offers…

• Our 2012 conference – Mediterranean Diet: A Proven Prescription for Better Health.
• Med Diet posters for your waiting room or clinic
• Our new Med Diet brochure, in bundles of 75, to purchase for your patients and clients. 
• Seasonal menus and nutrition news you can use in newsletters and other client communications
• Thumbnail summaries of the latest Med Diet research, in areas from heart disease to cognitive health and everything in between

Work with the MFA. Email us, and we’ll tell you how you can add your company logo to our Med 101 brochure.

FOR INDUSTRY PARTNERS
For food manufacturers, distributors, importers, and commodity boards, the MFA offers…

• An opportunity to connect your product to one of the healthiest diets in the world.
• Creative programming and publicity that raises the profile of the Med Diet and products associated with it, such as our annual Med Month celebration and our bi-weekly Fresh Fridays e-newsletter.
• Visibility on the Oldways website, for your traditional Med-style products
• Our Med Pyramid and Med Mark, to use on your packaging to tie your qualifying products to the growing buzz about the Med Diet.
• Use of other Med Diet resources created by Oldways and the MFA.

Partner with us. We invite companies to promote their Mediterranean products and support the work of the MFA by becoming members. Click here to learn how you can join the MFA.