Mar 24 2009
What is the Med. Diet?
What is the Mediterranean Diet?
The term “Mediterranean Diet” doesn’t apply to a diet as such but to the traditional eating habits of some of the regions around The Mediterranean Sea in the early 1960s.
Areas such as Southern Spain, Crete, Greece and Italy were included for the way they ate naturally and healthily.
Characteristics of the Mediterranean Diet:
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil as the main fat source
- An abundance of fresh fruit, nuts vegetables, and seeds.
- Lack of processed foods
- Seasonal produce
- Fresh fruit for dessert and few concentrated sugar products
- Daily consumption of cheese and yoghurt
- Fish eaten regularly
- Moderate consumption of poultry and eggs
- Red meat rarely eaten
- Wine consumed with meals and in moderate amounts
