The Mediterranean Diet

Do you know that by simply switching to the Mediterranean way of eating, you can add about three years to your life? It’s true. And medical experts from the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenberg in Sweden have done their thing to prove this beyond any doubts. According to a report entitled “Does the [...]
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How many times have you seen one or two people carefully snapping photos of their food? I know that the photographer in you can spot a few errors in the way they set the focus or how terrible the lighting is in that restaurant. And almost instantaneously, you would wonder if you can make some money from food photography.
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History and description of the Mediteranean diet including information on its longevity attributes. The Mediterranean basin was the birthplace not just of much of our Western political and artistic culture, but of a great culinary culture as well. Unlike the animal-based diets of the northern Europe, the culinary traditions of the Mediterranean countries of Greece, southern Italy, Cyprus, Spain and Turkey are fundamentally plant-based. Even more significantly, in these lands, the olive and its oil served as the prime dietary source of fat and its flavor-enhancing power.
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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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