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Healthy Weight Loss Q & As deduced that diet was a major contributor to the Mediterranean people’s superior health—including lower rates of heart disease and cancer—laying the foundation for further research that has identified other health benefits and helped to pinpoint the contribution of specific foods highlighted in the Mediterranean diet. While these health benefits are widely touted as the reason to follow a Mediterranean-inspired diet, there is another benefit that is less well known. It turns that that those who follow the Mediterranean diet have less of a chance of becoming obese than those who follow a typical western-style diet. For example, a study published in 2006 in the medical journal Nutrition found that those who adhered to a Mediterranean-style diet were 51% less likely to be obese than those whose diet didn’t resemble this healthy way of eating. Mediterranean-diet adherents have also been found to have lower levels of systemic inflammation; since inflammation is an outcome of obesity, and reducing inflammation is a very important facet of a healthy approach to weight loss, a Mediterranean-style diet can also be beneficial to healthy weight loss because of its anti-inflammatory benefits.

Q&A 5: What Are The Other Qualities That Make a Food One of The World’s Healthiest Foods? While nutrient-richness is a defining feature of the World’s Healthiest Foods, I felt that it was very important that these foods also be easily accessible. They had to be foods that you could find in natural food stores and supermarkets. For example, the vegetable purslane, a staple in dishes served along the Mediterranean, is very nutrient-rich— including being a source of hard-to-find omega-3s; yet, I felt that it wouldn’t be of much service to include it in the list of the World’s Healthiest Foods (even though it may be one of the world’s healthiest foods) and emphasize it in the Healthy Weight Loss – Without Dieting, since most people in the U.S. do not readily have access to 205


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About the Author

4min
pages 225-227

References

5min
pages 219-222

APPENDIX 2 Additional Testimonials

5min
pages 216-218

APPENDIX 1 The World’s Healthiest Foods’ Quality Rating System Methodology

4min
pages 213-215

Can You Help Me Further Solve the “Mystery” of Weight Gain?

5min
pages 210-212

Is My Attitude Towards Weight Loss Important?

5min
pages 207-209

What Is The Difference Between Nutrient-Rich and Energy-Rich Foods?

1min
page 206

How is the Healthiest Way of Losing Weight Similar to the Mediterranean Diet?

1min
page 204

What Are The Other Qualities That Make a Food One of The World’s Healthiest Foods?

1min
page 205

What Causes Us To Overeat?

4min
pages 201-203

Why Are Organic Foods Important to Healthy Weight Loss?

3min
pages 199-200

What is the Role of Calorie Intake in Weight Management?

6min
pages 195-198

Chapter 13 The Healthiest Way of Cooking

6min
pages 131-134

Chapter 12 Practical Tips for Continued Healthy Weight Loss

20min
pages 119-130

Chapter 8 World’s Healthiest Foods Promote Liver Health

2min
pages 68-69

Chapter 9 World’s Healthiest Foods Balance Blood Sugar Levels

13min
pages 70-79

Chapter 7 World’s Healthiest Foods Promote Digestive Health

4min
pages 65-67

Chapter 2 Why Nutrient-Richness Can Help You Lose Weight

18min
pages 30-43

Chapter 5 World’s Healthiest Foods Promote Energy Production

2min
pages 61-62

Chapter 4 World’s Healthiest Foods Help You Manage Adverse Food Reactions

9min
pages 55-60

Chapter 3 Why Nutrient-Rich World’s Healthiest Foods are the Key to Health and Healthy Weight Loss

15min
pages 44-54

Introduction

4min
pages 10-13
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