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While fad diets and cosmetic surgery continue to offer patchwork (and often dangerous) solutions to the growing problem of the overweight and obese Western population many are finding that an adherence to the traditional and historic Mediterranean diet presents one of the most simple, effective alternatives and solutions.

To examine the typical Mediterranean diet it is important to trace back those civilizations and societies that played a role in contributing to its make-up and by doing this we can best look at the most prevalent foods in the ancient Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Arab cultures and time.
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9 Things to do while on a diet

1. Do not start doing the “Fad” diet of the moment - The risk is to not having the desired effects. Choose a fairly healthy diet and suitable to your food habits.
2. Do not believe to miracles - Don’t expect that your food change will transform your body in a few weeks or a few days. You can consider this period as a time when you can take care of yourself and your health.
3. Do not do too much exercise - Do not stress your body unless you are a professional athlete.
4. Do not skip meals - Some people think that dieting means skipping meals and thus lose weight by eating less calories possible. But this way of thinking is wrong, you are not on a diet to lose weight, but to gain a new way of eating, healthy and balanced.
5. Do not look at the balance every day - Don’t do it because it is almost impossible that your body loses weight every day, and you might find disappointing results and discouraged even before you begin.
6. Do not be influenced by humor - The outcome of the diet follows that of your emotions. You could fall in the “sadness trap” followed by a piece of cake only with the aim to make you feel better.
7. Do not reduce too much the number of calories - Reducing too drastically the amount of food is absolutely wrong because forces the body, which is suddenly lacking, to accumulate as many calories as possible.
8. Do not hesitate to ask for advice - Often when you want to lose weight you can receive wrong advices by “so called” experts committing serious errors for our health, so the advice is to seek “trusted advice“.
9. Do not be hyper critical with yourself - To better understand your eating habits try to write down a “Weight loss journal” about what you eat during the day, so it’s easier to analyze the results and make any changes to the program.

10 Healthy habits from the Mediterranean

1. Eat legumes
2. Eat lots of dark green leafy vegetables like spinach, rocket, endive, chicory and amaranth
3. Eat a range of coloured vegetables including tomatoes and capsicum
4. Use extra virgin olive oil
5. Include some fermented foods like yoghurt or feta cheese
6. Slow cook meats with vegetables, including tomato, garlic, onion and olive oil.
7. Eat fish and seafood
8. Be generous with herbs like oregano, rosemary, dill and mint
9. Snack on nuts and seeds like pumpkin seeds, roasted chickpeas, almonds, walnuts, as well as dried and fresh fruit.
10. Use vinegar as a flavouring for other dishes.

Read more:

• Ten healthy habits from the Mediterranean (eating frozen pizza doesn’t count), Theage.com.au
• Ten things to do while on a diet, Blog Dietetico

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Nutrition and agro-food technologies experts denounce a reduction by more than 50% of the nutritional properties of foods so called “friends of health” caused by:

• Loss of seasonality
• Pollution
• Agricultural policies of some countries

Have been accused especially fruit and vegetables and other “ingredients” of the Mediterranean diet. They are no longer those of the past.

The reasons?

• The procedures for the production and storage of products that come from all parts of the world
• The demand for products beyond their natural season
• Pollution

So at equal calories intake, foods have far fewer vitamins, salts and fibers.

“Surely products have something better than what happened just 20 years ago but them have lost more than 50% in terms of nutritional principles” , confirms Dr. Andrea Strata, professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Parma, Italy.

Today, the industrial social model requires a variation of food proportions.

Here 5 simple rules to review and update the Mediterranean diet to adapt it to new needs and modern lifestyles:

• The first rule: regular intake of carbohydrates on the basis of your actual physical activity and lifestyle.
• The second rule: increase consumption of fruit and vegetables
• The third rule: help your body through the integration of nutrients. Especially at certain times of the year, in winter take vitamins, as well as minerals during the hottest periods.
• The fourth rule: choose, as far as possible, food where the use of pesticides has been minimal.
• The fifth rule: be informed on the meal and food ingredients and preparation.

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According to an European research group, the consumption of olive oil rich in polyphenols (natural antioxidants) improves the lives of people suffering from oxidative stress, and is also highly beneficial for the prevention of cell aging and osteoporosis.

According to Professors Alberto Fernández and Antonio Segura:

“As preventive substances, polyphenols help to combat any oxidative disease associated with the degenerative process.”

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Last day I was reading some articles on Sicilian red oranges and I’ve found a very useful article about the effects of sugars consumption and the risk of coronary heart diseases.

The study was conduced by Dr. Linus Pauling, a famous Nobel prize winner, that says:

The coronary disease, including angina pectoris seem to be typical of modern times. Their increasing impact goes hand in hand with the increased consumption of sugar. It’s not correlated with the consumption of animal fats (saturated fat) or fat in general.

From Wikipedia: “It is common to equate severity of angina with risk of fatal cardiac events.”

The citation continues with the explanation of the sugar (Sucrose) metabolism:

The sucrose metabolism in first place produces equal amounts of glucose and fructose.

Glucose enters directly into metabolic processes that provide energy to cells of the body.

The metabolism of fructose proceeds in part to a different direction as a precursor of cholesterol that we synthesize in the liver.

From a study of Dr. Milton Winitz

The ingestion of sucrose leads to an increase in the concentration of cholesterol in the blood.

The Dr. Pauling solution is the Vitamin C

He was very interested in the possible role of vitamin C in preventing atherosclerosis and published three case reports on the use of lysine and vitamin C to relieve angina pectoris.

You can find more of his works in the Linus Pauling Institute and read:

“Higher Plasma Vitamin C Concentration Predicts Lower Risk of Stroke”

In Summary:

1) Avoid foods high in Sucrose:

• Biscuits
• Cookies
• Cakes
• Pies
• Candy canes
• Ice cream
• Sorbets
• Sucrose-containing drinks

2) Choose fructose or corn syrup to sweet foods or drinks

3) Increase the consumption of foods high in Vitamin C

• Broccoli
• Tomato
• Red peppers
• Potatoes
• Oranges and Lemons
• Melons
• Spinachs
• Cauliflower
• Grapefruit
• Raspberry
• Strawberry
• Carrot
• Peach
• Apple

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You can read the book of Dr. Pauling: “How to Live Longer And Feel Better“

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Here a single idea to choose a snack that mix all the Mediterranean in a cracker…

It’s a product of the Barilla Group that I buy in Italy.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour
• Tomato (20%)
• Not hydrogenated vegetable fats
• Extra virgin olive oil (2,8%)
• Salt
• Cheese grain (Parmesan) (1,65%)
• Barley flour
• Oregano (0,5%)
• Natural yeast
• Eggs

Nutrition information for 1 serving (1 ounce)

• 135 Kcal
• Protein 2.8
• Carbohydrates 21.2
• Fat 4.3

I’ve tried to search how to find them in the U.S. but nothing.

So if you want to cook them at home here how to prepare a cracker.

Preparation:

1. Put all ingredients in a blender until fine crumbs.
2. Transfer to a small bowl.
3. Add cheese to blender until smooth.
4. Return flour mixture and process until ball forms.
5. Roll out dough thinly.
6. Prick dough all over with a fork.
7. Cut crosswise into equal strips.
8. Bake at 325 for 20 minutes.

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Pregnant women who eat a Mediterranean diet may be protecting their baby from eczema and allergies in childhood, new research suggests another benefit of this diet.

Consumption of vegetables more than eight times a week, fish more than three times a week, and beans or peas more than once a week seemed to be especially protective in preventing eczema and allergies.

A study by Greek doctors found that children of mothers who closely follow the oil and fish-rich diet while pregnant have a 45% lower risk of developing an allergic disease before the age of seven.

Based on this analysis, eating a high-quality Mediterranean diet during pregnancy was associated with an 88% reduction in persistent wheeze risk among offspring and a 45% reduction in allergic disease risk.

Their children also had a 45 per cent lower risk of allergic disease than women on a low quality diet.

Read more:

• Analytic evaluation of a “Mediterranean” diet in pregnancy, read more…
• Mediterranean Diet: Prenatal Benefits?, read more…
• Asthma from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• 3 More reasons to choose the Mediterranean diet health plan, read more…

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Rice with sardines - Arròs amb sardines
by Núria Roig

This rice dish is not only delicious but very healthy as sardines are oily fish that contain healthy omega 3 fatty acids. Moreover, the combination of rice and fish increases its benefits.

This sardine rice is a traditional Catalan rice dish that represents the Mediterranean diet very well. From beyond the French border down through Barcelona and further south, the Catalan fishermen and their families created many simple and health-promoting dishes like this one.

Ingredients - Serves 4

• 8 to 12 fresh sardines depending on the size
• 4 cups (1 l) hot water
• 1¾ cups (400 g) short or round-grain rice is best, but long-grain also
• works fine
• 1 cup (250 g) shelled sweet peas (use frozen peas if fresh aren’t available)
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 sprig flat parsley
• 4 threads saffron
• 1 teaspoon salt or to taste

Preparation method

Cooking time: About 40 minutes

• Clean and wash the sardines. Remove the head and the bones and season them with some salt.
• Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel, seed and finely chop the tomatoes. (Seeding the tomatoes is optional.) Peel the garlic cloves and mince two of them. Shell the peas.
• Add the olive oil to a casserole, and when it’s hot add the onion. Stir and cook for about 5 minutes over low heat or until it’s golden. Stir often. Add the 2 cloves of minced garlic, and stir for a few moments. Add the tomato and the sweet peas. (If you are using frozen peas, add them 5 minutes later.)
• Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring a few times. The tomato juice should evaporate slowly, but the mixture shouldn’t dry up. You can add a little water halfway into the cooking, but only if your tomatoes don’t have a lot of juice and you really feel it’s needed.
• In the meantime, make a Catalan picada by adding 2 cloves of garlic, the parsley leaves, saffron and a pinch of salt to a mortar. Crush and pound these ingredients until you get a smooth paste. The best method is to begin with the first ingredient, use the pestle for a few moments, add the second, pound a little bit more, and so on.
• Later, dissolve it with 2 or 3 tablespoons of the rice cooking juice. This is the traditional Catalan picada that is added to a myriad Catalan Mediterranean recipes towards the end of the cooking time. It gives a special texture to this rice with sardines that you wouldn’t get without it.
• Bring the water to a boil.
• When the sofregit or tomato mixture has caramelized, add the rice and the salt. Stir briefly and add the hot water.
• When the rice begins to boil, add the picada you just made and stir briefly and gently. Cook uncovered for about 10 minutes. Distribute the sardines over the rice, and cook for 8 more minutes. Your rice with sardines is now ready to be served.

At Mediterranean Diet Aromas Núria Roig helps you explore delicious Mediterranean recipes, undiscovered Catalan cuisine, and the relaxed Mediterranean lifestyle from the inside.

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It’s common to find people that search for info to buy a good cooking book.

If you try to do a search using Google and type “Mediterranean diet cookbook”, You’ll find more then 40.000 pages.

To help you save time I did a little search to compare the best rated books in the most popular websites.

At the end of the process I’ve classified them in base of their value. (Primarily based on people’s reviews)

Here the list of the top 3 Mediterranean diet cook books I’ve found.
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Here you are 2 useful articles regarding the Mediterranean diet and weight loss.

Have a look their are very interesting.

[P.S. Have you read the latest “How to” healthy guides?]

What is the best way to lose weight during 2008?
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It’s time to do a little summary of this year. My first intention was to write a list of the best posts, but it’s too boring.

Instead of a list of links to other pages, I’d like to share with you what I’ve learned with this blog during this period.

[P.S. I’ve updated the Mediterranean diet page. Have a look and read what’s new]

First of all I’ve learned that there is a lot of misinformation about what the Mediterranean diet really is.

By reading news papers and blogs, I’ve seen that the Med diet is represented with the stereotype of a salad with a flow of Olive Oil.

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What’s the best diet for longevity?

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This week I’ve read another boring study about the health effects of the Mediterranean diet. Researchers say it helps live longer.

What’s the news?

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According to a new study reported in the December issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, diet may protect against Parkinson’s disease.

Researchers demonstrate that the dietary pattern has to be based on a low intake of saturated fat, moderate intake of alcohol and an high intake of:

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Legumes
• Whole grains
• Nuts
• Fish
• Poultry

Do you remember what diet is it?

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Monks do it better…

It’s not a joke, last day the independent published a new on how the Monks who live on Mount Athos (Greece) shown to cut their cancer risk.

A research demonstrates that only a tiny number of brothers have suffered from the disease in the past decade.

There are several reasons why this can be explained:

• Stress-free existence
• Away from world
• Eating the old-fashioned way

The main factor in their low uptake of cancers is their diet.

They eat fruit, vegetables, pasta, rice, soya and bread…the typical cancer prevention diet.

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Now we know that it’s true. A recent study confirms the health benefit of Apples.

A diet rich in fruits and veg has a preventive role in avoiding the risks of cancer and diseases.

[Translated] The study conduced by the Italian Cancer League [Translated] says that eating 1 apple a day helps in reducing the risk of Cancer and heart diseases.

The results are clear. The cancer cells development is reduced by

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Everybody of us know that the Mediterranean diet help sin preventing Alzheimer disease. Now we know that this diet help also to prevent the main causes of dementia.

In fact people who eat:

• Fish at least once a week have a 40% lower risk of dementia
• Fruit and vegetables once a day reduced the risk by 35%

A diet rich in oily fish and vegetables can reduce the chances of dementia because both contain anti-oxidants, which could protect the brain from damage.

The Alzheimer’s Society said that most people could cut their risk by eating a healthy diet.

More…

• How the Mediterranean diet leads to longer life for elderly people
• Top 10 meal ideas for Mediterranean diet to live longer - How you should eat to arrive at 100 years
• How the traditional healthy Mediterranean diet pyramid help a 90 years old man to climb a 3.000 meters Mountain

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There is only a single way to prevent heart disease…eating like a Mediterranean.

Last day in this article about the “Secret of Mediterranean diet”. I’ve read about a study on why the Med diet helps preventing heart attacks etc…in a single word “Green“.

In fact, the U.S. researchers say that leafy green vegetables may help protect heart tissue from the injury caused by a heart attack.

They suggest that nitrite (found in celery, beets and greens) may be the secret ingredient of the heart-healthy Mediterranean diet.

More info:

• An healthy diet plan to cure obesity heart diseases in American people
• Drink red wine to cut off the risk of heart diseases and keep your heart healthy
• Keep your heart healthy with the Mediterranean diet - Interview with Emilia Klapp
• Mediterranean diet: heart disease, cancer, tomatoes and Olive oil. Focus on how they are linked and can help you
• Mediterranean diet and Alzheimer, cancer, arthritis, heart attack, cholesterol, overweight
• Mediterranean diet benefits – A new study confirm 50% low coronary heart disease

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Pizza or Pasta?

Last day during my daily news hunting, I’ve found this article about the real healthy effects of the menu of 2 of the best Italian restaurants in America: Romano’s Macaroni Grill and the Olive Garden

A report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest suggests that maybe eating Italian is not so healthy.

They say that recipes like Spaghetti, Lasagna, meatballs, etc…are high in calories and full of saturated fat.

Generally most people believe the Mediterranean diet is eating like the countries of the Mediterranean cuisine. But it’s not so.

There are thousand of recipes, those healthy, those tasty and those fatty. It’s normal!

The Mediterranean diet is based on:

• Tomatoes
• Olive Oil
• Wine
• Pasta
• Etc..

But It doesn’t mean that all recipes that contains these foods are healthy.

I think that it’s a responsibility of the e restaurants to inform the consumer about the calories and provide a food chart in their menu.

The risk is that the consumer could believe all Italian recipes are healthy.

I’d like also to clarify some things:

• I’m Italian and I think that these restaurants haven’t nothing of Italian. They are managed as business…and everybody of us know that Money=Unhealthy.
• A typical Italian restaurant should be family managed and of little dimensions. I had a look on the websites of these chains and I saw also “Franchising”….what?!
• How can they “sell” the Italian cuisine? Who guarantee you that the ower is another Italian?
• Another thing to consider is that today the Italian cuisine in America is an evolution of the tradition. So most foods don’t come from Italy and recipes have been modified.

Try to cook the Pasta with the Italian water instead of the American one and feel the difference!

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How to avoid risks for obese people

Last day I’ve read an article about a new study of the Emory University (presented in the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions) that shows how some slight diet changes can lead to significant improvements in an obese person’s cardiovascular health and repairing the damages from the past.

The research compared 3 groups on markers of heart disease risk. The groups where:

1. Follow a Mediterranean style diet [high in fruit and vegetables, bread, wheat and other cereals, olive oil, fish, and red wine]
2. Follow an American type diet [Relatively high in saturated fat, trans fat, chemical additives, refined sugar, and overall calories]
3. Continued to follow their usual diet

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Red wine is good for your heart

After realizing my first food chart, I’ve decided to write something more about the most important foods of the Mediterranean diet and their effects on health.

Wine is one of the main foods of the Mediterranean diet. Everybody know its effects and benefits on health.

Today I’ve read an interesting news about the healthy effects of red wine reducing heart diseases.

After a little explanation of why red wine helps your heart, you can read a list of resources about preventing heart diseases with examples of recipes, meals and links to find out more info.

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This week a publish a very interesting interview with Emilia Klapp the author of one of the best books about the Mediterranean diet: “Your heart need the Mediterranean diet”

What led you to write “Your Heart Needs the Mediterranean Diet”?

In the early 1990’s, three of my best friends passed away at very young ages. Crushed and bewildered by these unexpected losses, I became a voracious reader of anything published in the area of nutrition in an attempt to understand what had happened and whether these untimely deaths could have been prevented.

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This week I’ve found some interesting articles about children, cholesterol and how the Mediterranean diet helps live longer.

How the Mediterranean diet avoid the risk of obesity

During my weekly research, I’ve found a great interview in an Italian news-magazine about healthy foods for children on a diet and how to educate them to avoid obesity. The people interviewed is a famous Italian dietist that gives useful tips and advices. The interview is in Italian, so I’ve tried to used the online translator.

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Eating Mediterranean foods can help you

The flue and cold period is arriving. For those of you don’t believe in the vaccine or other medicines, here a list of useful Mediterranean diet foods that help prevent this diseases.

I think that everybody of us know that to prevent flue and colds you should:

• Drink plenty of liquids. Water and fruit juice
• Eat Garlic that contains an agent called alliin which acts as a decongestant.
• Drink a lot of Lemon juice and Red Orange juice to increase your vitamin C intake.
• Eat foods full of Vitamin C like Citrus fruits, Potatoes, green peppers and strawberries.
• Eat honey to stop cough

Here the foods to not eat with fever:

• High-fat
• High-sugar junk foods
• Skipped meals
• Lot of caffeine
• Dairy products
• Excess salt

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Recently I’ve read and interesting article about the benefits of Garlic in our diets. There thousand of recipes that use Garlic and it is on of the main foods of the Mediterranean diet.

According to this article eating garlic can protect your heart. So said by the researchers at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The active principle is allicin.

The Allicin is an element that protects itself from insects and fungi, garlic enzymatically produces allicin when it is injured. Thus, allicin is mother nature’s insecticide.

The heart benefits are well known but I’d like to pose your attention on the other health benefits of this especial food.
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Here the results of my weekly little search on blogs and news and the winner are:

• Olive oil and skin care
• Link fitness an the Mediterranean diet
• Benefits garlic
• The world pasta day
• More and more health benefit…

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Tomato is 1 of the best sources of lycopene

Everybody of us knows the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. It’s so healthy not for the fact that it’s a “Weight loss diet” but for the benefits of the foods in its pyramid.

Today we’ll discover all the info about Tomatoes: 1 of the best foods with high lycopene content that helps us prevent cancer and aging effects.
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Everybody know the positive effects of the Mediterranean diet preventing cancer. On this post we’ll talk about what are the foods to avoid for prostate health and what to eat.

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Most people confuse the Mediterranean diet as a dietary pattern used only to loose weight. It’s not 100% exactly. There thousand of reasons to decide to follow this diet…mainly for healthy reasons.

Weight loss is only a consequence of eating healthy.

There 2 main goal to reach:

1. Patience
2. Consistence

Here a list of useful resources I’ve found this week on the effects of the Mediterranean diet and children, myocardial infarction and prostate cancer.

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Eating out with the Mediterranean diet

Following the tips in this post I’ll try to give you useful info on how to use the Mediterranean diet principles and answers these questions:

• How do we eat healthy when we’re limited to airport food and business dinners?
• How do we keep up our exercise routine when we’re on a plane most of the day or in meetings?
• How can we lose weight while stay 8-10 hours in an office?

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What food to eat for high cholesterol?

Here a list of resources about the effects of the Mediterranean diet for Cholesterol Reduction for heart healthy

In this post we’ll talk about:

• Health, antioxidant foods and longevity
• Free diets with low fat recipes menu and foods for lowering cholesterol
• Good & Bad Fats
• Mediterranean cuisine: Italian and French

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Med diet pyramid increases your health

Here a list of the recent buzz I’ve found on the web this week…so let’s talk about:

General

• Is the Mediterranean diet really what we need?
• What is a Mediterranean pyramid diet?

Health effects

• Interview with world heart scan authority, Dr. John Rumberger
• How to fight Prostate Cancer and blindness
• Causes mortality after myocardial infarction

Foods

• More Omega-3s essential
• Diabetic Diets and Wine
• Lower Cholesterol by eating tomatoes
• Why You Should Make Extra Virgin Olive Oil Part of Your Diet
• Spinach and Eggs Can Help Your Vision

Cooking

• Some cooking advices on how to cook some Med foods

Not so good info…

• Greek diet fuels heart problems
• Binge Drinking On The Rise In Mediterranean Countries

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(Thanks to hugovk)

As we know the Med diet has lot of health effects:

• Helps prevent diseases
• Helps live longer
• Helps in Alzheimer, cancer, arthritis, heart attack, cholesterol, overweight
• Etc…

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Here a list of resources that explain how the Mediterranean diet helps:

• Physically inactive person
• People live longer
• Cuts out the bad fats
• Is rich in antioxidants

At the end some examples of Med diet recipes to cook Spaghetti and Italian pasta

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Recently I’ve read a post in this blog where the arguments are a series of articles about “Mediterranean diet helps….but not much“:

• Mediterranean diet and insulin sensitivity, lipid profile and blood pressure levels, in overweight and obese people - The researchers aimed to investigate if overweight and obese adults “close” to Mediterranean diet present better insulin, lipids profile and better pressure levels, compared to individuals close to a more Westernized diet

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It’s not difficult to find people that ask questions like:

• What are the drawbacks for doing the Mediterranean diet?
• Does the Mediterranean diet cause diseases?
• What are the Mediterranean diet dangers?

I did a little research in forums, social media, newspapers and medical magazines and I didn’t find anything that confirm that the Mediterranean diet has bad consequences on health.

I’ve found instead a list of resources that confirm the health benefits of this diet…here the some ones:

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Here a list of the best resources of the week about the effects of the Mediterranean diet and health

• Mediterranean Diet May Help Alzheimer’s Patients Live Longer - A Mediterranean diet may help people with Alzheimer’s disease live longer than patients who eat a more traditional Western diet. The study is published in the September 11, 2007, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. More: Here - Here - Here - Here

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Here a list of simple Mediterranean diet recipes I’ve found on the net. They are organized for categories and source.
The recipes based on the Mediterranean diet are organized by Chicken; Pasta; Salads; Breakfast recipes and sources like Social websites, forums and newspapers. Below you can also see real time videos about Sicilian recipes making…

Let’s have a look at these Mediterranean diet free recipes

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Here the list of the best resources about the Mediterranean diet I’ve found this week.

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Health and wellness

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Here you are the best Mediterranean diet health issues I’ve found on the net this week.

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There is a lot of misinformation about cholesterol. It’s important to consider that the 75% of the cholesterol is produced by your body. Now let’s examine 10 simple recipes for Mediterranean diet from Sicily to lower the remaining 25%.
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All of us know that the main causes of children’s overweight is due to:

• Low time to dedicated to prepare healthier foods
• High calorie snacks and pre-cook foods
• Too less physical activity

Now I’ll try to help you understand better how can you avoid your child become more fat.

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Who needs oysters and champagne when we can use the Mediterranean diet?

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Here a list of the main resources you can read about the Mediterranean diet, weight loss and tips to live healthier

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