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How is the Healthiest Way of Losing Weight Similar to the Mediterranean Diet?
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Q&A 4:
How is the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan Similar to the Mediterranean Diet?
The Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan is the result of my decades of traveling and researching the foods consumed by populations throughout the world. It is an extension of my Healthiest Way of Eating that is specifically geared towards those who are looking to shed extra pounds.
There are many cultures whose diets may afford them good health. Yet, when it comes to an easily adoptable way of eating that features inherently good-for-you foods as well as a reverence for the way that good food can contribute to health and happiness, I feel that there is no better model than the Mediterranean diet.
The Mediterranean diet is a term used to describe the food intake patterns of individuals living in the Mediterranean region (for example, those in the Greek island of Crete as well as Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Southern France). In addition to olive oil, the Mediterranean diet focuses on fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, fish, nuts, seeds, and legumes/beans, food groups at the foundation of the World’s Healthiest Foods and the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan.
(Before I continue, it’s important to point out that the “diet” in “Mediterranean diet” means the routine foodways of a culture, the foods and beverages that they regularly consume. Although the Mediterranean diet—and the Healthy Weight Loss Eating Plan that it has inspired—can lead to weight loss, the inclusion of the term “diet” doesn’t inherently infer restriction of food intake for the purpose of losing weight, the other common meaning of this word.)
Decades ago, when scientists began studying the cultures along the Mediterranean Sea, they found that they had lower rates of disease and longer life spans than many other populations. The scientists
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