Entries Tagged 'Review of cookbook and books' ↓
January 6th, 2008 — Meal ideas, Mediterranean cuisine, Review of cookbook and books
Thanks to Akearns72
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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October 20th, 2007 — Foods Menu, Health benefits, Nutrition facts, Review of cookbook and books
Thanks to carbonnyc
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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October 14th, 2007 — Foods Menu, Meal ideas, Med Diet Info, Nutrition facts, Pasta, Recipes for weight loss, Review of cookbook and books, Salad recipes
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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September 30th, 2007 — Diet plan, Diet pyramid, Foods Menu, Meal ideas, Med Diet Info, Nutrition facts, Review of cookbook and books
September 22nd, 2007 — Current news, Diet blogs and resources, Pasta, Review of cookbook and books
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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July 29th, 2007 — Foods Menu, Med Diet Info, Review of cookbook and books
Recently i did a general comparison of the major “Diets” and i’ve found 2 things that impressed me:
1) People don’t interest to stay unhealthy and prefer loose weight fast
2) The major problems are weight maintenance for a long period
It’s amazing to see how much misinformation there is on the web and how the “New diets” promoters try to trick people…
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