Mediterranean Style Life With Mediterranean Diet.
The Mediterranean Diet is more than a diet. It is a lifelong living style. You have to adopt it, as a religion. Decades ago, it was the natural way of life of many people around the Mediterranean Basin, especially in Greece, Italy and Spain. High activity, Mediterranean nutrition, anti stress attitudes and not much money shaped a culture. Now days, these circumstances have changed in the mentioned countries, but many responsible people are still keeping or returning to what is considered to be the healthiest diet in the world.
The Mediterranean Diet is the best way to live many years with a high quality of life. It is also the best way to keep your body in shape, your skin clean and beautiful and your internal organs working properly. It the best diet to lead you to a proportional weight and don’t endanger your health with urgent and unbalanced malnutrition. Many fad diets may allow you to lose a few pounds, for a time, a weight that you will regain later after having lost part of your health.
The Mediterranean Diet is also the best way to prevent many diseases. The most important are stroke’s and the “myocardial infarction” or heart attack, but are many more. It has been proved the important role of the Mediterranean Diet in the prevention of the metabolic syndrome. Some health disorders of which the most important are: too much fat around the waist, unbalanced levels of cholesterol and insulin levels and high blood pressure. So it has been in the prevention of lung diseases, asthma, many allergies, Alzheimer, Parkinson and also for keeping the bone mass in elderly people. Recently, it has been related the Mediterranean Diet with low incidences of many types of cancer.
Folks following Mediterranean Diet have a 70% more of expectancy of life and a 80% of better quality life even if they are smokers. By the way, if you want a healthy life, what is the use of smoking? This is another effect of the Mediterranean Diet. Most of the real followers of this style of life do not smoke of stop doing it. The physical activity and a bigger awareness of the importance of health are the main drives.
However being a Mediterranean Diet follower not only means choosing your food. It is also important knowing what you should avoid. They are the artificial products that did not exist fifty or sixty years ago: artificially hydrogenated products and derivates, and anything containing of being suspect of contain trans fat. In USA, It is compulsory from January 1st 2006 to indicate in the labels the trans fat proportion. You should choose products with 0% of trans fats. Nevertheless, you have to take into account that 0% means really up to 0.49 grams per serving. If the serving is small and you take many, you may be eating a lot of these fats. They are responsible for increasing the bad cholesterol (LDL) and reducing the good one (HDL), apart from other supposed negative effects that are being investigated.
Considering that the Mediterranean Diet is a very important cultural element, it has to be learned as soon as possible. Parents have to learn how to manage their children food habits. They have to learn how to avoid manufactured products and substitute them by fresh and natural food. Stop buying wrapped things and give them instead an apple, a banana or a homemade sandwich. Be careful with the main meals, and supervise the schools lunches. It is of utmost importance. Remember that your body and brain age will depend on what you eat!
