Mediterranean Diet

If you want to live a longer, healthier life, it is hard to go past the Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet has been proclaimed as being about as close to ideal as a diet gets. This is not only based on short-term results or assumptions about the nutrient value of the food consumed. The proof is simply, the health and longevity of generations of people who live in the Mediterranean, and to whom this lifestyle diet is truly a way of life. These people not only live longer than their counterparts in more westernized societies, but they are under-represented in a great many diseases and conditions. Conditions such as heart disease, dementia, and Type 2 diabetes, which can all be greatly influenced by and often attributed to lifestyle. Although it is called a ‘diet’, it goes far beyond what you eat and is as much a mindset and certainly a lifestyle. A big part of the attraction of the Mediterranean diet is that it is not a calorie restrictive diet. It is not in any way a ‘crash’ diet. It is a lifestyle diet in its truest sense. Those who have been conditioned to a ‘diet’ mentality will be pleasantly shocked at the wide range of beautifully tasting foods that are considered to be an acceptable part of the Mediterranean diet