Category Archives: Mediterranean Diet

The Mediterranean Diet Protects From Weight Gain

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Traditional diets are diets that have been historically eaten by particular populations around the World. These diets tends to have changed little over time and reflect the types of foods available in the local environments of the populations. Traditional diets … Continue reading →

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Low Carbohydrate Diets: Weight Loss Without Calorie Restriction Required

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Robert Barrington

That weight loss requires calorie restriction is a fallacy. However, despite evidence clearly showing that non-calorie restrictive diets are effective, many people continue to believe that they must forcibly restrict energy intake in order to cause weight loss. The main … Continue reading →

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What Is A High Quality Diet?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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High Quality Mediterranean Style Diets are Cardioprotective

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Nutritional research has undergone a paradigm shift in recent years. In this regard, diet quality as a whole, rather than any individual component of that diet, is starting to be understood as the defining factor in health. That is not … Continue reading →

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Magnesium Prevents Cardiovascular Mortality

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Magnesium is an essential macromineral that is known to possess a number of functions in humans nutrition. Magnesium is best known perhaps for its role as a cofactor in the ATP molecule where it acts to stabilise its structure. This … Continue reading →

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The Nordic Diet: Fat Loss Without Calorie Counting

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Robert Barrington

The energy balance theory of weight gain is a clever propaganda ruse. Spread surreptitiously by the food industry and the diet industry (really one in the same) deep into the subconsciousness of the general population, this theory is poison. Based … Continue reading →

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Eat Smart, Stay Smart

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Western lifestyle diseases include cognitive degeneration. It is often assumed that it is common to experience such age related cognitive decline. However, studies on populations consuming traditional Mediterranean foods show that this is not the case, and suggest that diet … Continue reading →

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Low Quality Western Diets: Death, Disease, Pain

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Robert Barrington

The Western nations are good at two things, war and junk foods. Both kill large numbers of people, and both make big profits for the companies that surreptitiously pay for the governments through their lobby money. The low quality foods … Continue reading →

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Adopting a Western Style Diet

Posted on July 31, 2014 by Robert Barrington

Traditional diets are those that retain their traditional eating patterns and are therefore devoid of modern processed and low quality foods. Traditional diets are therefore high quality diets which contain low amounts of sugar and other processed and refined carbohydrates, … Continue reading →

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High Quality Diets Prevent Disease

Posted on December 14, 2013 by Robert Barrington

High quality diets are those that contain the essential nutrients required by an individual for correct metabolic function. In addition, high quality diets must be absent of metabolic poisons such as sugar and other fructose containing molecules, and possess high … Continue reading →

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