Several studies have linked the Mediterranean diet with a reduced risk of heart disease.
The merits of the Mediterranean diet, Psilakis reminds his audience, have been accepted doctrine for decades.
Research into the Mediterranean diet reflects how dietary fiber can affect measures like triglycerides.
The Mediterranean diet is also likely to be a factor in Italian longevity.
Scarmeas' previous research has shown that the Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
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Still, because the benefit demonstrated by the Mediterranean diet was so striking, the study was stopped early.
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However, the Mediterranean diet (from the Greek diaita, or way of life) encompasses more than just food.
The Mediterranean Diet might just as well be called the Monastic Diet or the Joy of Joylessness Diet.
Cole's own research deals with fish oil, which is relevant because fish is a component in the Mediterranean diet.
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One of the Mediterranean diet groups was told to consume at least four tablespoons of olive oil per day.
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The Mediterranean diet emphasizes values of hospitality, neighbourliness, intercultural dialogue and creativity, and a way of life guided by respect for diversity.
The only really big difference is that they gave olive oil and nuts to people in the Mediterranean diet subgroups.
The likelier benefactors in the Mediterranean diet, he says, are the nuts, fish and vegetables that replace fries and burgers.
The benefit in favor of the Mediterranean diet groups occurred early in the trial and continued throughout the follow-up period.
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For those of us who loathe fish and celery and lima beans and walnuts, the Mediterranean Diet is a nutritional death sentence.
Markets also play a key role as spaces for cultivating and transmitting the Mediterranean diet during the daily practice of exchange, agreement and mutual respect.
The participants who followed the Mediterranean diet the least had an increased risk for having strokes that was similar to people with hypertension.
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Participants in the Mediterranean diet groups had quarterly training sessions with dietitians and were given surveys to assess their adherence to the diet.
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Another thing: If the Mediterranean Diet is so effective, then how come none of the countries that line the Mediterranean has a functioning economy?
In addition, although people in the Mediterranean diet groups ate more fish and legumes, they did not substantially alter other aspects of their diet.
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Earlier this week, results from a massive study on the benefits of the Mediterranean diet were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Now it is up to the AHA, and Ornish, to prove that their diets are better than, or even as good as, the Mediterranean diet.
The study shows association, not causation, meaning there could be some other factors linking the Mediterranean diet to resilience against this form of brain damage.
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Earlier today I summarized the important new PREDIMED study published in the New England Journal of Medicine showing the cardiovascular benefits of the Mediterranean diet.
The only part of the Mediterranean Diet that sounds encouraging is the part where the scientists urge us to drink seven glasses of wine a week.
At the end of the study, 3.8% of the Mediterranean-diet-plus-olive-oil and 3.4% of the Mediterranean-diet-plus-nuts groups suffered a heart attack, stroke or death from cardiovascular disease.
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The trial was stopped early in July 2011 by the data and safety monitoring board when the benefits in the Mediterranean diet groups crossed a predetermined boundary.
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The Mediterranean diet discouraged soda drinks and the low-fat diet discouraged vegetable oils, nuts, fried snacks, visible fat in meats and soup, fatty fish and tomato sauce.
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The Mediterranean diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, conservation, processing, cooking, and particularly the sharing and consumption of food.
The new study, published online Monday by the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, is consistent with other findings of the protective benefit of the Mediterranean diet.
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