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Mediterranean Foods Health Benefits

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Healthy and Delicious Mediterranean Foods

This lens shows why are Mediterranean foods recommended so much by nutritionists, doctors and other health experts and why should people seriously consider including it into their daily routine.

There's this great saying that goes something like this: We should eat to live and not live to eat. I couldn't agree more. However, I like food and I like to eat. In fact, I'm not sure which one I love more - food or the atmosphere of good friends or family spending their time at the dining table full of delicious foods. Probably both:-) Not to mention the holiday season and all those goodies and irresistible scents coming out of the kitchen. Ironically, people eat wrong things the wrong way and mostly at the wrong time and when food starts working against them they assign it all to stress or fast living or whatever.

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Meditteranean Diet And Your Health
Overall Health Benefits:
Mediterranean Foods In Your Home
Mediterranean Diet On YouTube
A Little Bit Of Mediterranean For You An...
More Healthy Food From Me
Mediterranean Foods on The Web
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Meditteranean Diet And Your Health

It's not news anymore that the population in Mediterranean countries suffers much less from cardiovascular conditions as well as many other serious consequences of wrong diet. Mediterranean food power is in its synergy, rather than in some super healthy impact of one or several its ingredients. In other words, freshness, small portions, moderate quantity of wine along with such food and above all pleasure in food consuming, obviously make the winning combination for a long and healthy life.

Overall Health Benefits:

Cholesterol regulation
Heart diseases risk reduction
Type 2 diabetes prevention
Reduction of Parkinson's disease
Reduction of Alzheimer's disease

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Mediterranean Foods In Your Home

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Mediterranean Diet On YouTube

Mediterranean Diet: by AASU | video info

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A Little Bit Of Mediterranean For You And Your Loved Ones

Olives - The Queen Of Mediterranean Foods

More Healthy Food From Me

Creamy Leek and Potato Soup: Quick and easy to follow recipe I often make. Enjoy two most common vegetables in this very special home made creamy soup. Bon appetit!

Mediterranean Foods on The Web

The Mediterranean Foods Alliance (MFA): help consumers and families bring the gold-standard Mediterranean diet into their daily meals more frequently and more easily
Mediterranean Diet Blog: recipes, healthy eating tips, the food pyramid and more
Mayo Clinic Blog About Mediterranean Diet: latest news about Mediterranean diet pyramid

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JaguarJulie Oct 18, 2011 @ 12:51 pm | delete

Yes I love them and I eat them ... particularly with lots of garlic -- keeps the vampires away too!

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moonlitta Oct 16, 2011 @ 5:06 am | delete

Mediterranean food is really close to our national kitchen (Bulgaria is so close to Greece) and especially in the bordering parts of the country it's really popular. Blessed!

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poddys Oct 14, 2011 @ 12:45 am | delete

I love Mediterranean foods, and living in the UK I very much grew up with them, especially salads. The peasant way of life, getting up early, working, then having a good breakfast, then more work and lighter meals as the day goes on is far better than having a big breakfast before any work, and then a large meal before bed.

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Ilona1 Oct 10, 2011 @ 2:21 pm | delete

I do -because they are one of the most delicious combination of foods ever!

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Mirna Sep 24, 2011 @ 2:48 pm | delete

I eat fish at least twice a week and I love it.

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karmicchristian Jun 8, 2011 @ 3:37 am | delete

Lunch time... and it is a dash to the nearest Mediterranean restaurant. :)

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saraPalmer May 25, 2011 @ 2:08 am | delete

Hello Tamara, I am a follower of Mediterranean diet and this is a great lens. I agree that this type of diet is among the healthiest in the world. Thanks for sharing this wonderful article. Two thumbs up. I shall read some more of your lens, you can count on it.

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saraPalmer May 25, 2011 @ 2:07 am | delete

Hello Tamara, I am a follower of Mediterranean diet and this is a great lens. I agree that this type of diet is among the healthiest in the world. Thanks for sharing this wonderful article. Two thumbs up. I shall read some more of your lens, you can count on it.

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CHalloran May 17, 2011 @ 8:09 am | delete

My all time favorite cuisine in the whole world! Those olives look so yummy! I can probably eat around 20 to 30 at once, I am such a big olive fan, it's unbelievable! LOL I also love cous cous salad and stuffed grape leaves and hummus! Oh, it's only 6:00AM, and I am starving already!

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Ladymermaid May 15, 2011 @ 3:32 pm | delete

Lol...I love garlic but my husband is threatening to leave me if I don't stop using so much of it on our meals. Gosh but I really will miss him ;)
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