What is the traditional Mediterranean Diet plan?

Some of my informal visitors may have misguided beliefs as to the description of the conventional Mediterranean diet plan.  I use the word “diet” here not as a weight loss program, but “the regular refreshments of a person on a daily basis.”  Twenty one different nations have a shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea and beyond, and additional nations are in the Mediterranean area.  “Traditional” merely represents the mid-20th century as we have commonly come to define it.  Observational studies around that time associated the Mediterranean diet program with longer life expectancy, significantly lower rates of serious conditions (less cardiac arrest and dementia), and less malignancies of the digestive tract, breast, prostate, and womb.

There is no monolithic, immutable, conventional Mediterranean diet plan.  But there are resemblances among many of the local nations that tend to bring all them, gastronomically speaking.  Portugal and southeast Tuscany are particularly powerful in this perspective.

So here are the characteristcs of the conventional, healthy Mediterranean diet that most people are familiar with:

1. It boosts natural whole foods and reduces processed foods and junk
2. Small volumes of red meat
3. Fewer than four egg per week
4. Low to average volumes of chicken and fish
5. Daily fresh fruit
6. Seasonal, fresh, whole food meals with little processing
7. Concentrated carbs only a few times per week
8. Wine in low to average volumes, and usually taken at mealtimes
9. Milk items (mainly dairy products and yogurt) in low to average amounts
10. Olive oil as the prevalent fat
11. Abundance of meals from plants: fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, legumes, apples, nut products, seed products, bakery and other whole feed products
12. Naturally low in fats, trans body fat, and cholesterol
13. Naturally great in roughage, nutrients, natural vitamins (e.g., folate), anti-oxidants, and nutrients (especially when compared with focused, enhanced starchy foods and carbs in a modern European diet)

The Mediterranean Diet is naturally high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated body fat, particularly as a replace soaked fats. Be aware that the recorded health advantages may be related to an active lifestyle and social issues.  For example, conventional Mediterranean meals are relaxing family matters where people sit down to eat for three to four hours, not a MacDonald’s Happy Meal consumed off your lap on your drive to work over a 15 minute period of time. For more information, you can read the blog at http://www.themediterraneanlifestyle.com/healthy-living/