When it comes to healthy eating often refers to the Mediterranean diet. Yet every continent, if not every nation has its own characteristic food and eating habits, how can what you eat in the Mediterranean basin has unique properties so that you can not find in other parts of the world?
When you began to study the causes of atherosclerosis, the inflammatory disease in the long run may lead the attack and stroke, he departed from simple statistical data showing that the Mediterranean countries the incidence was much lower than in northern European countries and the United States. After a series of detailed studies it was clear that this was due to the fact that the Mediterranean diet is characterized by a low fat content with a high intake of antioxidants, substances which, among other things warn cellular aging. But fiber and unsaturated fats with anti-inflammatory properties that have an important role in the prevention of atherosclerosis.
That alone is able to provide a convincing explanation to life higher, but the benefits do not end there, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in animal fats may help lower blood pressure by 8-14 points in favor of the other conditions with reduced mortality.
The most important study to history as the Seven Countries Study "was conducted by the American doctor Ancel Keys, lasted 25 years and as the name suggests involving 7 countries, 3 of the Mediterranean Basin, Greece , Italy, and Yugoslavia as Finland, Holland, Japan and the United States.
Keys finished his work, he decided to spend the last part of his living close to inch a little village in the province of Salerno, who came to the headlines recently for the murder suffered by its Mayor Angelo Vassallo, a righteous man who fought among other things, to recognize its international recognition of the Mediterranean diet. A confirmation of the goodness of the thesis Keys, fully embracing the style of Southern food, making himself a guinea pig lived until 2004 dying at the age of 100 years!
The most important result which is obtained from a mass of data is so great that there is no miracle food that can lengthen the life of others but is a synergy of beneficial effects obtained by consuming the right proportions of vegetable fats (olive oil), carbohydrates (bread and pasta), protein (fish, meat and vegetables), fiber (fruits, vegetables and cereals), but also underestimated foods such as wine, dried fruit, eggs and dairy products. What should be pointed out, however, is that to take advantage of these benefits is not enough to be born in this air geographic area where life expectancy is higher but closely follow the Mediterranean diet.
During the long study by Ancel Keys you took into consideration groups of Italian immigrants settled there in the U.S., for these subjects it was seen that more time spent in the new continent as their mortality approaches that of Americans, simply because they changed their cultural style food adapted to local conditions. And a few days is news that UNESCO has finally acknowledged that the Mediterranean diet, the title of "intangible heritage of humanity", the posthumous victory of a respectable political passionate about his country, murdered for opposing the mal'affare of those who consider it publishes a conquered land.
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