The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: Simple and Delicious Recipes For Living Healthy

Countries bordering the Mediterranean have built up a solid reputation for sunshine great tasting food, as well as impressive health statistics featuring some of the lowest rates of heart disease and increased life expectancy in the Western world. This has created a lot of attention towards the Mediterranean diet which is not a typical weight loss diet, but more of a set of habits inspired by the traditional eating habits of people living in the Mediterranean.
A research was carried out on the island of Crete which is often considered to be the heart of the Mediterranean diet. A lot of the islands are where the healthiest people in the world live. And what they found on this particular island at the time in the 1950s, the men lived to be the same age as the women and they only could find one man on the entire island who had any kind of heart disease in a 10 year period. So the reason those people were living so long is because they weren't dying of all the diseases that most of us die from, they were dying from old age. And a lot of it has to do with the food.
There's now been thousands of studies done on the Mediterranean, the diet itself has been shown to help benefit with almost everything, from the top of your head to your toes. So anything from Alzheimer's, dementia, eye health, skin health, asthma, of course lung disease, cancer, diabetes heart disease, and obesity. All of these things have been shown to be helped by the Mediterranean diet.