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Mediterranean Diet
Rating: 7

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Description: This diet combines the healthy living habits of the Mediterranean Sea area with daily exercise to help you loose and maintain your weight. It includes fresh, unprocessed and unrefined foods that are used to loose weight but also put you on to a healthy way of living.

Review: The Mediterranean Diet is a great diet if you enjoy fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, died beans, fish and poultry. All natural foods that is easy to find and prepare.

This diet doesn’t require any special types of food. Which is a wonderful thing especially for someone like myself. I don’t like the idea of planning out my meals to the very last detail or having to run to 3 or 4 different stores to find the right ingredients. So that made this diet easy for me to use and stay on.

Because it requires the use of olive oil, an unsaturated fatty acid that will help with your cholesterol. It helps maintain healthy cholesterol and lower your cholesterol if there is a tendency for yours to be too high. It has also been known as a preventative for certain diseases like cancer and heart diseases. It is very low in saturated fats and trans fat.

It also promotes portion control. Which is great for my family who thinks they have to eat everything on the table at that precise minute. You don’t cook in big quantities therefore you don’t eat as much. In turn this promotes a healthy weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week. Which have many benefits for those of us who just jump right in full tilt and then feel terrible or loose all our energy because we lost weight so fast.
Criticism: This type of diet will not work for someone who has an allergy to seafood, shellfish or nuts. Unfortunately it includes those types of food into it often.

If you’re a red meat nut this diet is also not a good idea. There is a very minimal amount of red meat included, maybe once or twice a month.

Filed under: Healthy Stuff on August 22nd, 2007