Is The Mediterranean Diet Rubbish?

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I have put a few excerpts here from a great, if contradictory article about the Mediterranean diet from The Telegraph.
In a nutshell Spain, Italy and a few countries, are bidding for the diet to be put on the world heritage list, which is fair comment after all everyone has heard of the benefits of following this kind of lifestyle.
However, there is an argument against because of the rising obesity in Europe as you can see from the clip below.
So is the Mediterranean diet rubbish? Of course it isn’t, the benefits of following the traditional style of food and cooking, using ingredients like olive oil and fish etc… has many benefits.
What is happening here is the same thing that is happening in Japan where obesity is rising, and that is through the introduction of rubbish fast food, and poor food choices.
If you want to find out more about the Mediterranean diet and how it can help you lose weight and increase longevity, take the time to click here and check out this site
clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Last year, in an exceptional case in the northern region of Asturias, social services removed a 10-year-old boy weighing 100 kg from the care of his grandparents because they would not stop overfeeding him.

Yet, Spain’s problem with obesity does not undermine its case to have its traditional diet internationally recognised, says Chef Ferran Adria whose restaurant El Bulli was named best in the world by Restaurant Magazine.

However, the diet it recommends is “based on the dietary traditions of Crete, Greece and southern Italy circa 1960 at a time when the rates of chronic disease were among the lowest in the world, and adult life expectancy was among the highest, even though medical services were limited”.

June 23 2008 06:48 pm | food and general health

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