The Mediterranean Diet

Here's about the Mediterranean Diet.

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Introduced in the early 90s based eaten by the Harvard School of Public Health and the World Health Organization recommendation to the traditional Mediterranean diet is a nutritional food people in the Mediterranean, including Greece, Spain, Italy and Morocco. This includes foods that are rich in fiber and antioxidants such as vegetables, legumes and nuts. This diet is rich in good fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids and low in saturated fats and trans fats.

Health Benefits

Geraldine Maglalang, a nutritionist and professor at the University of East's College of Nutrition and dietetics, says the Mediterranean diet high in consumption of olives and olive oil, whole grain products (especially bread and unprocessed grains), fruits and vegetables, legumes and nuts, with moderate consumption of dairy products, fish and red wine and low consumption of meat. If this diet is followed, the fat is consumed 25-35 percent of calories from saturated fat by eight per cent or less.

Mediterranean Diet Food Pyramid

According to the Oldways Preservation and Exchange and Trust (www.oldwayspt.org), the Mediterranean Diet Food Pyramid helps people see which foods are the best. The base is made up of foods like whole grain breads, cereals, pasta, potatoes and rice. Fruits, legumes, nuts and vegetables make up another large share of daily diet along with smaller amounts of cheese, yogurt and olive oil. Poultry, fish and eggs should be eaten weekly while red meats should be eaten only about once per month. The pyramid also suggests that you drink at least six glasses of water every day along with moderate consumption of red wine. Unlike other diet practices, this one allows for one sweet treat once a week.

A friend of mine used to be overweight and she wanted to lose weight gradually but successfully. About a year ago, she started practicing the Mediterranean Diet. Barely six months since practicing the diet, she lost about six pounds and so she maintained her diet and right now, she’s happy and contented with her weight.

According to her, she replaced butter, margarine and other salad dressing oils they were using at home with olive oil, included fruits and vegetables in every meal, eliminated refined white bread and pasta with whole grains and cereals, ate poultry and fish—moderately, avoided red meat and had yogurt and cheese as her sources of calcium. And although it was a bit hard for her, she replaced soft drinks with lots of water every meal. True enough, she reaped the fruit of labor in just few months.