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The Mediterranean diet wins again. Over the last several years research has accumulated that a diet high in vegetables, legumes, fruit, nuts, fish and olive oil and low in meat is linked to a lower risk of heart disease, asthma, cancer, macular degeneration, diabetes and dementia. Now add a reduced likelihood of depression to the list of benefits associated with a Mediterranean-type diet.
Investigators from Spain tracked more than 10,000 volunteers and found that those who followed a more typical Mediterranean food pattern had 30 percent less depression than those with different dietary patterns. The evidence, although not foolproof, suggests that the more we eat like folks used to eat in Greece, Italy and Spain, the healthier we will be.
[Archives of General Psychiatry, October, 2009]
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I would like a day by day example of the Mediterranean Diet with 3 meals a day and snacks. Not just saying to eat nuts and fish and olive oil. I don't know how to eat that for breakfast?
Jan
The ACTUAL traditional Med diet always contained pork as the meat in people's diet. Nearly every family slaughtered a pig in the winter and used every bit of it. Pork fat was used as often or more often than olive oil.
PEOPLE'S PHARMACY RESPONSE: MEDITERRANEAN DIETS VARY FROM ONE PART OF THE COAST TO ANOTHER. A FAMILY RAISING ITS OWN PIGS AS PART OF A SUBSISTENCE FARMING PLAN IS LIKELY TO EAT MEAT OCCASIONALLY RATHER THAN EVERY DAY.