The Mediterranean Diet

Dr. Toby Cosgrove, the CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, and a heart surgeon for over thirty years, recently sparked a firestorm of controversy when he told a New York Times reporter that if it were up to him, if there weren't legal issues, he would not only stop hiring smokers. (The Cleveland Clinic has already done this.) He would also stop hiring obese people.
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The pregnant women who stuck to a high quality Mediterranean Diet while pregnant had children with much lower incidences of childhood asthma and allergies. While we all know that it is important to consume healthy foods while expecting, and to avoid such things as alcohol and tobacco, this study has highlighted the critical importance of a nutritious pre-natal diet.
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Insights into research on preventing osteoporosis with the Mediterranean diet. Sticking to a Mediterranean Diet would appear to now have another health benefit. A study just released from the Harokopio University of Athens (Greece) has shown a definite link between the Mediterranean Diet and improved bone mass. This could be important news for the 10 million osteoporosis sufferers reported in the United States alone. Osteoporosis, or thinning of the bones, effects up to 55% of the over 50 population.
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Highlights from the British Medical Journal on the Mediterranean diet. While the Mediterranean Diet has been acknowledged for many years as having many health benefits for those who follow that particular eating plan, until now there has been little or almost no formal study collations. However, all of this changed when the British Medical Journal published the findings from the University of Florence, Italy, in September 2008.
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Provides information on the prevention of high blood pressure and strokes with the use of garlic. Great news for all you garlic lovers out there! Recent research at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, has shown a direct link between munching on the smelly stuff and reducing high blood pressure. Untreated high blood pressure is a very real killer. Over 16 million people in the UK and a staggering 73 million in the US suffer from high blood pressure. Two thirds of these people do not have their blood pressure under control. Almost one in three do not even know that they are suffering from high blood pressure.
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There have been several discoveries over the last few years in relation to the oustanding benefits of the Mediterranean diet. None more important than the recognition of it ability to minimize the affects of Alzheimer's disease. A stronger following to a Mediterranean-style diet could cut the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by a whopping 68 per cent, a finding from a multi-ethnic study from the US...
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The Mediterranean diet is not some new fad diet ... dreamed up by a weight-loss "guru" or as a new health measure. It is thousands of years old. People living along the Mediterranean Sea have been eating a natural diet ... that has been proven in numerous studies to reduce the risk of heart attack and keep blood pressure from rising...
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Longevity and The Mediterranean Diet: Over the course of many generations, observers have been able to discern that the people who populate the region around the Mediterranean Sea live longer lives than do men and women in some other parts of the world. Historically, the reason most often attributed to the longevity...
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Through the course of the past three decades, a significant number of scientific studies have demonstrated that a person’s diet can help to prevent some types of cancer. One diet regimen that appears to have beneficial effects at preventing cancer is the Mediterranean diet plan.
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4 Primary Reasons How the “Mediterranean Diet” Promotes Heart Health The term “Mediterranean Diet,” while widely in use in the 21st century, actually is something of a misnomer. In reality, there is not a diet regimen that is common to all of the countries of the Mediterranean region. With that said, there is some commonality between what people of the different nations of the Mediterranean eat on a regular basis. Equally important, there are food and beverage items that are not often found in the diets of the peoples of the Mediterranean.
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