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Mediterranean Diet: Stay Young, Longer

Evidence suggests that the Mediterranean diet is beneficial to the health. Traditionally, the Mediterranean diet provides a high intake of green leafy vegetables, fruit and whole grain cereals, with moderate amounts of dairy and meat from fish and fowl. Individually … Continue reading

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Didj You Get Your Fibre Mate?

Traditional diets may be beneficial to the health because they contain a high fibre to starch ratios. One of the main problems with adoption of the Western diet is that the fibre to starch ratio is low, which deleteriously affects … Continue reading

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The Decline of the Traditional Diet

vidence suggests that traditional eating plans such as the Mediterranean, Inuit and Okinawan diets are protective of disease. Despite obvious differences in composition, common characteristics of such traditional diets exist. In particular, traditional diets are low in sugar and refined … Continue reading

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Mediterranean Diet and Mortality

ertain populations around the World are known for their longevity and lack of physical and mental illness. The common theme between these populations is the fact that they eat their traditional diets. These diets vary from place to place, but … Continue reading

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Another Pizza the Puzzle

any individuals consume pasta under the erroneously assumption that it is healthy food. This is based largely on the misconception surrounding the benefit of low fat foods as well as a misunderstanding regarding the traditional diet of Italy. The Mediterranean … Continue reading

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More on the Mediterranean Diet and Mortality

he Mediterranean diet is the traditional diet of populations living around the Mediterranean sea in Europe and North Africa. Evidence is accumulating from epidemiology, animal studies and intervention trials that regular consumption of the diet is beneficial to the health. … Continue reading

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Corn Flakes Versus All Bran: Lose the flakes, Lose Fat

vidence suggests that highly refined carbohydrate foods are a major cause of obesity. Refining cereal grains removes the bran and the germ layers, the parts of the grain that contains most of the fibre and micronutrients. Refined carbohydrates therefore comprise … Continue reading

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High Quality Diets: Thinking Man’s Food

ecently a partial shift has occurred in the way the nutritional sciences approach research. Traditionally, single isolated foods were assessed for their health effects, a model based largely on the one used prominently in medicine since its inception. However, a … Continue reading

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