The Mediterranean Diet: Senior Health, #4
By Ron Kness
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The Mediterranean Diet is one of the very best diets there is for anyone who wants to lose weight in a way that’s healthy, fun and sustainable. This is a diet that’s all about treating food with respect and all about getting natural ingredients in a way that you can actually enjoy.
And the benefits of that are incredible. The numbers speak for themselves but it goes beyond just lifespan and heart health. This is a diet that can make you feel the best you’ve felt in years.
Somewhere along the way, our approach to diet here in the US has become twisted. I’m talking about our general diet sure but I’m also talking about our attempts to eat healthily and lose weight!
And in many ways, our diet is a reflection of our lifestyle: everything is fast, convenient and consumable. At the same time though, it lacks substance and it lacks passion.
We have lost respect for our diet and we’ve stopped seeing food as something to be enjoyed. Instead, we see it as an inconvenience.
We’re too busy to eat – and so we grab the quickest thing to eat from the cupboard or the fridge. Normally that means eating ready-made meals that are full of sugar and processed meats, or it means eating Mars Bars that literally offer us zero nutrition.
Unsurprisingly, this leads to many of us gaining a lot of weight as all we’re eating is sugar and in high quantities.
At the same time, our skin, hair and nails look damaged because we aren’t getting the bioavailable amino acids or the vitamins and minerals that we need. All that sugar has led to an epidemic of diabetes and many other preventable diseases are running rife.
Those of us who want to do something about this weight gain try to do so by counting calories or cutting fat. Now we’re getting even less sustenance from our food while still feeling exhausted and burned out all the time.
Now we feel guilty whenever we eat. Now our relationship with our food is even worse.
Scientists were very surprised when they looked at data from around the world and found that people who ate a Mediterranean Diet lived longer, were less likely to get heart disease and were thinner.
But when you think about it, it’s obvious! These are people who spend actual time cooking fresh, healthy meals.
Many of those meals are PACKED with fruits, with vegetables, with salad and with fish. These are all foods that are stuffed with nutrients. Nutrients that the body uses to build muscle, to regulate hormones, to provide energy and to improve our mood.
As soon as you start eating food that you enjoy – as soon as you slow down to smell the delicious garlic coming from your bolognaise – you begin eating well again and your body thanks you for it.
Those living in the Mediterranean area have eaten this way for years and enjoy better health and more longevity than most in other areas ... there must be something to this way of living.
Ron Kness
Besides my own writing, I also ghostwrite ebooks, reports, articles, blogs on a variety of topics along with Kindle conversions for clients. Today my wife and I live in Gold Canyon, AZ, where you'll find me happily sitting in my office typing away on my laptop as I work on my next book or ghostwriting project . . . that is if we are not traveling on a cruise ship - our new-found mode of travel.
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The Mediterranean Diet - Ron Kness
Introduction
When people want to lose weight, the first thing they will often do is to look around for some kind of diet they can follow. In many cases, this will mean looking for ‘fad diets’ that involve fasting for long periods, drinking nothing but juice or counting all their calories...
Guess what? Fad diets don’t work!
Fad diets are called that exactly because of their ‘flash-in-the-pan’ nature. It’s impossible to maintain a diet that requires too strict changes to your lifestyle and routine, so it’s really just destined for failure.
What’s more is that making such big changes to your diet often has severe negative consequences. Juice diets are all fun and games (well not really), until the acids in the juices erode your teeth!
The simple fact of the matter is that we’re not meant to eat like this and the body isn’t built for it!
But there is another way... it’s called the Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean Diet is of course the diet that is traditionally enjoyed in Mediterranean countries. These include: Italy, France, Greece and Spain; all of which enjoy particularly good health and long lives!
In particular, a Mediterranean cuisine is associated with a healthier heart. But in general, it also adheres closely to most government ‘healthy eating’ guidelines and can provide lots of nutrition without too many calories.
It includes a lot of ‘super foods’ that are absolutely fantastic for your overall health and it has the balance of food groups just right.
But unlike ‘fad diets’ this is a diet that’s easy to stick to (countries full of people have been doing it for centuries!), that’s delicious, that’s affordable and that doesn’t restrict anything in your diet.
I guess the question you’re wondering now... why has no one told you about this before?
The Mediterranean Diet
The Mediterranean Diet is a diet that, at first, sounds just too good to be true. Here’s a diet that doesn’t involve cutting anything out of your routine, that doesn’t involve staving yourself and that allows you to eat delicious meals that feel rich, indulgent and highly satisfying.
And yet it has tons of incredible benefits!
For years, researchers and dieters have been trying to ‘crack the code’ of healthy eating and have been looking for tricks and techniques they can use in order to lose weight safely and consistently.
For a long time, this led to the belief that saturated fats were bad for us and could cause heart disease and stroke. Seeing as fats are also higher in calories than either carbs or protein, this seemed like a good bet!
But then further research looked a little more closely at this idea. Statistical data from around the world appeared to show that people from Mediterranean countries (Greece, Spain, Italy, Southern France) actually lived longer and had healthier hearts... despite eating lots of saturated fats and drinking lots of red wine!
Most of us would consider going out to a Greek or Italian restaurant to be indulgent and a ‘treat’.... And we all know that diets shouldn’t be enjoyable!
What was going on?
At first it seemed like a complete mystery, until more recently when the science caught up. Under more controlled experimental conditions, it turns out that saturated fat doesn’t increase the bad kind of cholesterol (LDL) but only the good kind (HDL).
And on top of this, the Mediterranean Diet also packs in a host of other amazing ingredients. That red wine? Not only is a small amount of red wine actually useful for relaxing the heart and helping to reduce stress, but the high quantities of resveratrol found in red grapes helps to provide extra antioxidants and improved cellular function.
And there’s much, much more.
Today there is no question or doubt about it: there is no ‘secret’ to eating well. It’s simply a matter of eating a balanced and nutritious diet. And few cuisines do this as well as Mediterranean cuisine has been for centuries.
Let’s take