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We should all eat like a Mediterranean
http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=264
Liz Szabo,, "We should all eat like a Mediterranean", USA Today, September 22, 2004, Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ean-usat_x.htm Two new studies confirm the health benefits of eating the Mediterranean way. In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy. The study was conducted from 1988 to 2000 and led by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and other European universities. More than 2,300 healthy people ages 70 to 90 answered questions about their eating habits and activities. Researchers noted that the study suggests a strong association between healthy habits and longer life but offers no proof. In a separate study in the same journal, researchers from the Second University of Naples in Italy found that Mediterranean-style diets helped patients with "metabolic syndrome," which increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes and affects 1 in 4 American adults. People with the syndrome are fat around the middle, have high blood pressure and cholesterol deposits in their arteries, and do not properly process glucose. After two years, 44% of those on the Mediterranean diet still had features of metabolic syndrome, compared with 86% of others. This research confirms the results of earlier studies, experts say. A previous study of heart-attack survivors showed that the mortality rate was 70% lower among those who followed a prescribed Mediterranean diet compared with people on a low-fat diet. "The Mediterranean experience makes it clear that healthy eating is completely consistent with wonderful eating," says Walter Willett, chairman of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Yet getting more Americans to adopt healthy living will be a challenge, says Dario Giugliano, an author of the metabolic syndrome study. Experts say only 1 in 5 Americans eat the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day. |
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It doesn't matter if we start eating like (some type of) Mediterranean or not. Could just as well be Chinese, Masai, or any other traditional diet of whole nutritious foods. The important thing is to QUIT EATING LIKE AN AMERICAN (fast food, processed food, sugar, trans fat, no nutrients, empty calories, too many carbs, etc...). Alan "Roman Bystrianyk" wrote in message om... http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=264 Liz Szabo,, "We should all eat like a Mediterranean", USA Today, September 22, 2004, Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ean-usat_x.htm Two new studies confirm the health benefits of eating the Mediterranean way. In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy. The study was conducted from 1988 to 2000 and led by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and other European universities. More than 2,300 healthy people ages 70 to 90 answered questions about their eating habits and activities. Researchers noted that the study suggests a strong association between healthy habits and longer life but offers no proof. In a separate study in the same journal, researchers from the Second University of Naples in Italy found that Mediterranean-style diets helped patients with "metabolic syndrome," which increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes and affects 1 in 4 American adults. People with the syndrome are fat around the middle, have high blood pressure and cholesterol deposits in their arteries, and do not properly process glucose. After two years, 44% of those on the Mediterranean diet still had features of metabolic syndrome, compared with 86% of others. This research confirms the results of earlier studies, experts say. A previous study of heart-attack survivors showed that the mortality rate was 70% lower among those who followed a prescribed Mediterranean diet compared with people on a low-fat diet. "The Mediterranean experience makes it clear that healthy eating is completely consistent with wonderful eating," says Walter Willett, chairman of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Yet getting more Americans to adopt healthy living will be a challenge, says Dario Giugliano, an author of the metabolic syndrome study. Experts say only 1 in 5 Americans eat the recommended five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day. |
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(Roman Bystrianyk) wrote in message . com...
http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=264 Liz Szabo,, "We should all eat like a Mediterranean", USA Today, September 22, 2004, Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ean-usat_x.htm Two new studies confirm the health benefits of eating the Mediterranean way. In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy. Little dairy? Really? Then what do the mediterraneans do with all the cheese they make? Export it? Feed it to the dogs? |
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22 Sep 2004 16:01:54 -0700 in article
(Tony Lew) wrote: (Roman Bystrianyk) wrote in message . com... http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=264 Liz Szabo,, "We should all eat like a Mediterranean", USA Today, September 22, 2004, Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ean-usat_x.htm Two new studies confirm the health benefits of eating the Mediterranean way. In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy. Little dairy? Really? Then what do the mediterraneans do with all the cheese they make? Export it? Feed it to the dogs? The best example of Mediterranean diet is the traditional Cretan diet, which contains relatively low amount of dairy products. Only fermented dairy products, feta cheese and yoghurt made of goat or sheep milk are used. And yes, Mediterranean countries do export cheese. -- Matti Narkia |
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22 Sep 2004 16:01:54 -0700 in article
(Tony Lew) wrote: (Roman Bystrianyk) wrote in message . com... http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.p...st_item&id=264 Liz Szabo,, "We should all eat like a Mediterranean", USA Today, September 22, 2004, Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ean-usat_x.htm Two new studies confirm the health benefits of eating the Mediterranean way. In a study in today's Journal of the American Medical Association, mortality rates were 65% lower among elderly people who combined a so-called Mediterranean diet with 30 minutes of daily exercise, moderate drinking and no tobacco use. Although experts say there is no single Mediterranean diet, doctors say cuisines from these regions favor olive oil rather than butter and include lots of legumes, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, vegetables and potatoes but little meat and dairy. Little dairy? Really? Then what do the mediterraneans do with all the cheese they make? Export it? Feed it to the dogs? The best example of Mediterranean diet is the traditional Cretan diet, which contains relatively low amount of dairy products. Only fermented dairy products, feta cheese and yoghurt made of goat or sheep milk are used. And yes, Mediterranean countries do export cheese. -- Matti Narkia |
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Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:17:13 +0300 in article
Matti Narkia wrote: 22 Sep 2004 16:01:54 -0700 in article m (Tony Lew) wrote: Little dairy? Really? Then what do the mediterraneans do with all the cheese they make? Export it? Feed it to the dogs? The best example of Mediterranean diet is the traditional Cretan diet, which contains relatively low amount of dairy products. Only fermented dairy products, feta cheese and yoghurt made of goat or sheep milk are used. And yes, Mediterranean countries do export cheese. There is an interesting comment about cheese in thearticle Serge Renaud: from French paradox to Cretan miracle. Lancet 2000; 355: 48 - 52. URL:http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol355/iss9197/full/llan.355.9197.news.2419.1 "Renaud's answer is simple. The participants in the Lyon study ate like Cretans: no butter, cream, or milk; lots of vegetables, fruit, bread, and cereals; and little meat. For the study, Renaud designed a margarine similar in composition to olive oil, but enriched in alpha-linolenic acid. Patients ate cheese ("a 9000 year old invention not linked to coronary disease") and, of course, drank wine. Other linolenic acid-rich ingredients of the Cretan diet-- walnuts, snails, and purslane--were replaced by his margarine. Although linolenic acid's protective effects have been corroborated in other studies, Ducimetière warns that "the extraordinary [Lyon] results await confirmation"." See also de Lorgeril M, Renaud S, Mamelle N, Salen P, Martin JL, Monjaud I, Guidollet J, Touboul P, Delaye J. Mediterranean alpha-linolenic acid-rich diet in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Lancet. 1994 Jun 11;343(8911):1454-9. Erratum in: Lancet 1995 Mar 18;345(8951):738. PMID: 7911176 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=791117 6&dopt=Abstract de Lorgeril M, Salen P, Martin J-L, Monjaud I, Delaye J, Mamelle N: Mediterranean diet, traditional risk factors and the rate of cardiovascular complications after myocardial infarction. Final report of the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation 1999, February 16, 99:779-785 URL:http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/6/779 Leaf A. Dietary prevention of coronary heart disease: the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation. 1999 Feb 16;99(6):733-5. URL:http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/6/733 -- Matti Narkia |
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Thu, 23 Sep 2004 02:17:13 +0300 in article
Matti Narkia wrote: 22 Sep 2004 16:01:54 -0700 in article m (Tony Lew) wrote: Little dairy? Really? Then what do the mediterraneans do with all the cheese they make? Export it? Feed it to the dogs? The best example of Mediterranean diet is the traditional Cretan diet, which contains relatively low amount of dairy products. Only fermented dairy products, feta cheese and yoghurt made of goat or sheep milk are used. And yes, Mediterranean countries do export cheese. There is an interesting comment about cheese in thearticle Serge Renaud: from French paradox to Cretan miracle. Lancet 2000; 355: 48 - 52. URL:http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol355/iss9197/full/llan.355.9197.news.2419.1 "Renaud's answer is simple. The participants in the Lyon study ate like Cretans: no butter, cream, or milk; lots of vegetables, fruit, bread, and cereals; and little meat. For the study, Renaud designed a margarine similar in composition to olive oil, but enriched in alpha-linolenic acid. Patients ate cheese ("a 9000 year old invention not linked to coronary disease") and, of course, drank wine. Other linolenic acid-rich ingredients of the Cretan diet-- walnuts, snails, and purslane--were replaced by his margarine. Although linolenic acid's protective effects have been corroborated in other studies, Ducimetière warns that "the extraordinary [Lyon] results await confirmation"." See also de Lorgeril M, Renaud S, Mamelle N, Salen P, Martin JL, Monjaud I, Guidollet J, Touboul P, Delaye J. Mediterranean alpha-linolenic acid-rich diet in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Lancet. 1994 Jun 11;343(8911):1454-9. Erratum in: Lancet 1995 Mar 18;345(8951):738. PMID: 7911176 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=791117 6&dopt=Abstract de Lorgeril M, Salen P, Martin J-L, Monjaud I, Delaye J, Mamelle N: Mediterranean diet, traditional risk factors and the rate of cardiovascular complications after myocardial infarction. Final report of the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation 1999, February 16, 99:779-785 URL:http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/6/779 Leaf A. Dietary prevention of coronary heart disease: the Lyon Diet Heart Study. Circulation. 1999 Feb 16;99(6):733-5. URL:http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/99/6/733 -- Matti Narkia |
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"We should all eat like a Mediterranean",
I think this would depend on WHICH Mediterrenean! (coming from a Mediterranean family I know of what I speak!!) |
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