SPANIARDS are remaining faithful to the Mediterranean diet when all around them appear to be jumping ship.
An obesity epidemic has been predicted for Italy after a University of Rome study revealed that Italians were swapping olives and fish for Big Macs and fries.
Fast food profits have risen by 12% in Italy as punters ditch the traditional diet. No such figures can be reported in Spain however, where fast food intake has remained much the same as the previous year.
