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What Is The Mediterranean Diet?The Secret behind a healthier, longer and slimmer lifeWhat is the Mediterranean Diet that everybody is talking about? It's a diet rich in vegetables, olive oil and fish, but also moderate amounts of meat, wine and dairy products has been studied for over 50 years. Initially scientists were startled by the fact that people living on the Greek island of Crete had better cardiovascular health than that of US citizens, even after the deprivations during World War II. After years of research scientists have come up with an impressive list of evidence supporting the different health benefits of eating in a traditional Mediterranean type diet way. In a resent study Professor Dimitris Trichopoulos and his colleagues at the Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at the University of Athens and Harvard School of Public Health can for the first time show which Mediterranean diet foods are most important to health and longevity. The scientists have monitored the dietary habits and mortality of more than 23.000 healthy Greek men and women for over eight years. The results of the study are interesting not only for living a healthier and longer life, but also when you want to lose weight. The recipe for a longer life
1. moderate alcohol consumption 23.5% (a small glass of wine a day for women, two for men, more will damage your health!) 2. low consumption of meat and meat products 16.6% (professor Trichopoulos recommends eating meat only twice a week) 3. high vegetable consumption 16.2% 4. high fruit and nut consumption 11.2% 5. higher ratio of monounsaturated to saturated fats 10.6% 6. high legume consumption 9.7%. This is good news for weight loss candidates. More vegetables will give you fibers, water and are low in calories, fruit and nuts are yummy and beans and lentils give you excellent and cheap protein. You may wonder why high cereal consumption is not on this list. The answer may be that the participants probably ate as much unhealthy white bread as healthy whole wheat bread. The health benefits of the healthy bread are balanced by the negative effects of the unhealthy white bread so the result is zero. The Mediterranean Food Pyramid gives you an easy understanding on how to eat and live like they do in the Mediterranean and enjoy a healthier, longer and slimmer life! 
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