Food Guidelines for Living Longer
What you eat, when you eat, and how much you eat all play a role in maximizing your health for longer life. A comprehensive study published in the journal …
Tag: Mediterranean diet
An Avocado a Week for Your Heart
A new study has been published in the Journal of the American Heart Association finding that eating two servings of avocado a week, with each serving being half of an avocado, …
Herbs and Spices Do More Than Add Flavor
One of the key features of the Mediterranean diet is that the food is flavored with lot of herbs and spices including basil, bay leaf, black pepper, cloves, coriander, …
Why Are Plant Foods So Important?
By now you’ve heard over and over that eating a plant-based/plant-forward diet is better for you and helps prevent disease, but you might not understand why. You know plant …
What You Gain When You Leave the SAD
As you make progress towards ditching the Standard American Diet and embrace a more healthful one like the Mediterranean diet, you will also reap numerous health benefits. This is …
Yes, You Can Eat These Foods!
As we mentioned previously, the Mediterranean diet is not so much a “diet” as it is a lifestyle. The wide variety of foods you can eat means you never …
Alternatives to SAD
Once you acknowledge how unhealthy the Standard American Diet (SAD) is, what do you do instead? For five years in a row, the Mediterranean diet has been rated the …
Heart-Healthy Eating Lifestyle
The American Heart Association has published a “2021 Dietary Guidance to Improve Cardiovascular Health” this week in their journal Circulation. This guidance focuses on the role that nutrition plays in …
Flanonoids Lower Your Risk of Cognitive Decline
Flavonoids are antioxidants in plant foods that help prevent cell damage from free radicals throughout your body. They help prevent inflammation that can lead to chronic illnesses like cancer, …
Your Risk of Heart Disease Increases When You Eat Red and Processed Meats
In case you needed more incentive to stop eating meat, a new study from the University of Oxford has been published showing that for every 50 grams (1.75 ounces) …
When it comes to the Mediterranean Diet, Greener is Better
A study published last month in the BMJ Journal Heart confirms what we’ve known for a long time, that the Mediterranean diet is excellent for heart health and weight loss. It …
Are you Eating to Increase your Risk of Heart Disease or to Decrease it?
A study just published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has found that if you eat more pro-inflammatory foods like red meat, processed meat, organ meats, refined carbs, …