The Mediterranean Diet -- Which parts work

[steven johnson]

Not all parts of the Mediterranean diet equally contribute to health. Here's the upshot.

A study released Tuesday in the online edition of the British Medical Journal took aim at this very question. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece looked at more than 23,000 Greek men and women participating in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Over the course of about eight and a half years, the researchers led by Harvard's Dimitrios Trichopoulos and the University of Athens' Antonia Trichopoulou compared the health of the participants against their adherence to a Mediterranean diet.
As the authors note, that the analysis "indicates that the dominant components of the Mediterranean diet score as a predictor of lower mortality are moderate consumption of , low consumption of meat and meat products, and high consumption of vegetables, fruits and nuts, olive oil, and legumes."
In contrast, they noted, high consumption of fish and cereals and an avoidance of dairy products in the Mediterranean diet seemed to have little to do with the benefits of the overall diet.


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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. No diet works for an individual

except for a diet that is specifically tailored to that individual. Yes, you can take certain elements of certain diets, but in the end you create your own. A good MD will take into account your health history, family health history, food sensitivities, and physical conditions (like hypothyroidism) than all contribute to determining how you digest and metabolize food.

[xchrom]

2. was there something in this that required you respond the way you did?

i think this is about why the Mediterranean diet -- and mind you -- it's NOT -- a diet but the distillation of the way a lot of people -- particularly in Greece and all over the Mediterranean eat. including israel, lebanon, italy, etc.

more legumes, more fish, more fresh food, etc -- olive oli, sea salt rather than processed etc.

it's not the West Peoria Celebrety Diet -- but a diet.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Sorry you took it as hostile

too late for me to delete it. Please ignore it, or put me on ignore.