Vegetables, nuts, olives, fruit and fish. Mediterraneans eat healthy and live long. Their diet has historically gathered praise from nutrition experts worldwide. But what is it about the Mediterranean diet exactly that makes it so healthy?
Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece have released the results of a new study and it appears the Mediterranean Diet is the healthiest diet on the planet. Results were released Tuesday in the online edition of the British Medical Journal.
23,000 Greek men and women were watched for over 8 1/2 years. Specific foods in their diet offer the majority of nutritional benefits.
Food items in the diet that ultimately became “predictors of lower mortality” were a “moderate consumption of alcohol, low intake of meat and meat products, and high intake of vegetables, fruits and nuts, olive oil, and legumes.”
Surprisingly, high intake of fish and cereals that many assume are part of the diet, and the avoidance of dairy, did not impact the benefits of the overall diet.
So why are olive oil, fruits and vegetables, fish and seafood, nuts, beans, alcohol, cereals and cutting back on dairy so important to our health? To find the answer nutrition guru’s explain the study findings and the eight diet foods.
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