Changing eating habits in Spain Spain has stood out for its Mediterranean diet in which all kinds of food are ate which contributes to a healthy diet and therefore to be healthy. In recent decades in Spain it has introduced a "virus" that is destroying that good eating habits and is called "junk food". Spain is getting worse in terms of what nutrition is concerned. More and more obese people with cholesterol problems, heart problems... and all this is due to those bad eating habits. If we went back to eat in a healthy way, the health of Spanish clearly improve.