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1 5 Staples of a Mediterranean Diet
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2 Craft a Heart-Healthy Salad in Honor of Mediterranean Diet Month
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3 Another Reason to Love the Med Diet: It Fights Depression
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4 What's the Deal with: The Saint-Tropez Diet
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5 What's the Deal With: The Mediterranean Diet
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6 5 Ways to Eat Like a Mediterranean
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7 Mediterranean Diet and Allergies: Go Nuts
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8 Start Looking for the Med Mark
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9 Another Reason to Go Mediterranean
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10 Mediterranean Diet and Low-Carb Diet Neck and Neck
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11 The Only Proven Heart-Healthy Diet
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12 5 Things About the Mediterranean Diet
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13 Healthy Recipe: Roasted Chickpeas and Cucumber Salad
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14 A Healthy Bite: Cindy Crawford
We might not be able to make it to Greece or Southern Italy anytime soon, but we can bring the cuisine to us by celebrating Mediterranean Diet Month in our own kitchens. The healthy benefits of the Mediterranean diet are touted by numerous studies, and for good reason: it promotes heart health, good vision, and weight control, to name a few. An easy way to get the Mediterranean diet into your own Read more
There are already many proven benefits to following a Mediterranean diet, and now we can add another one: a new study of the dietary habits of about 1,000 people found that the high levels of monounsaturated fats found in a Mediterranean diet may help your smarts by protecting against small vessel damage in your brain. That benefit may help slow cognitive decline as well as prevent strokes. Past Read more
"If the kids want to go for ice cream, I'll get ice cream, too. I don't want my daughter to think that being a beautiful woman is about depriving yourself. She sees me exercising. She sees me eating right. I want to be a good example for her." — Cindy Crawford on setting a healthy example for her daughter Kaia. The former supermodel appears in Ladies' Home Journal this month, telling the mag Read more
If you're dieting and looking for filling, high-fiber, low-fat fat foods, then the simple chickpea is a dream food come true. These beans have been shown to help dieters stay on track and avoid unhealthy snacks. Inspired by this news, I created a simple side dish featuring roasted chickpeas, because I think they taste so much better that way. This salad makes a perfect side dish or a light Read more
We've been touting the benefits of the Mediterranean diet for a while now — it reduces allergy symptoms, helps with weight control, supports longevity, and is good for vision and heart health. A new study gives us yet another reason to go the way of Mediterranean: it may protect against depression. Researchers studied a pool of 11,000 Spanish adults over a four-and-a-half-year period and found Read more
People have been following the Mediterranean Diet for ages, and researchers continually discover new benefits to this style of cuisine. The diet has an impressive collection of attributes — besides its delicious focus on nuts, whole grains, legumes, and more, there are a number of health benefits associated with the diet. Check out five ways the Mediterranean Diet can do your body good. Read more
By now we know that certain types of food do more for our health than others, but when it comes down to it, a lot of the research we read states that a particular item "may" promote heart health. Researchers sorted through 50 years of studies to weed out the definites from the maybes and discovered that only some diets claiming heart-healthy benefits are supported by strong evidence. They Read more
When it comes to dieting, we all want to know what is most effective. A new study performed in Israel found that a low-carb Atkins like diet and the Mediterranean diet outperformed the low-fat diet. The study lasted two years, considerably longer than previous studies, and the weight loss period was limited to 6 months with a maintenance period of 18 months – I think the maintenance period is Read more
I am a big fan of the Mediterranean Diet. It is full of nuts, whole grains, and healthy fats — what's not to like? A new study provides yet another reason to go Mediterranean – it could help you live longer. In a large five-year study conducted jointly by the National Institute of Health and AARP, both men and women who followed a Mediterranean-style diet were about 20 percent less Read more
The Mediterranean Diet has gained a lot of popularity because not only is it healthy, but it's darn delicious too! Who can pass up tasty fruits and veggies, fresh fish, and the occasional glass of wine? Not me! Before you jump right into the diet, though, the British Dietetic Association has five tips so you can follow a Mediterranean-style diet without having to hop on a flight or read the Read more
