Scientists and The Mediterranean Diet

By Allyson Daniels


Americans tend to like their fats in the saturated form, with all of their grains of the processed variety, their protein with legs of some kind and their sugar added anywhere their sweet tooth has a craving. As for fiber goes, they're more than happy to consume it - so long as it comes in a pill or in the form of french fries or similar.

Nutrition experts tend to be rather disgusted and a bit freaked out by the typical American way of eating, due to the horrific side effects. In fact, most professionals wish that the average American would stop eating like a pig and instead opt for something like The Mediterranean Diet, which leans towards monounsaturated fats instead of saturated, whole and completely unprocessed grains, protein that actually come from roots in the ground, and sugar in its natural form only. Fiber, well, that comes from every organic source they can get it from.

Trichopoulos can point to literally thousands of of scientific studies - as well as a series of long-running natural experiments among the Mediterranean people themselves - which can link the diet to a decrease in overall mortality rates and, more important, to reduced rates of heart disease and cardiovascular issues, along with lower rates of Alzheimer's disease, cancer, diabetes and other serious health issues related to obesity and poor diet.

Probably no diet in the world has been studied as aggressively as The Mediterranean Diet or associated with as many positive health changes. But there are still questions that scientists haven't answered. They still can't say for sure how TMD does all of the things it does - or why it is that some aspects are so effective. A perfect example of this would be, is the red meat you don't eat more important than the olive oil you do? These kinds of questions have puzzled scientists for years.

At the end of the day there is really only one thing that you need to understand about the Mediterranean diet, and that is the simple fact that it works because nature intended it to work. We don't have to understand everything about planet Earth to continue to live in harmony with nature and various plants and animals which make up the ecosystem. All that really matters is that we find a way to achieve perfect health and wellness through a symbiotic relationship with whole foods and natural living.




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