The healthiest countries in the world are Spain and Italy, where the Mediterranean Diet reigns

According to the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index, which ranks the health status of 169 economies in the world, taking into account aspects such as life expectation, infant mortality, environmental factors such as clean water and sanitation and evaluating, obviously in the negative, the risk incidence such as tobacco use, poor vaccination coverage, obesity, Spain is the healthiest country in the world, ahead of Italy, second to 91.6, with Iceland on the lowest step of the podium at 91.4. At position no. 4 Japan, then Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, Norway, and Israel. In the record of Spain and Italy, a fundamental role is played by eating habits: thanks to the Mediterranean Diet, in which extra virgin olive oil and nuts have caused the collapse of cardiovascular diseases.