Too busy for Mediterranean Diet Plan?
June 12, 2009 by admin
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If you lead a busy and working life and don’t have much time to prepare your food, you can still plan your own Mediterranean Diet by combining meals you make at home with food intakes outside.
The benefit of Mediterranean Diet is that it allows almost any natural food! The most important things to pay attention to are the portions and the proportions.
Eating healthy means to avoid as much unnatural food as possible. Unnatural foods include hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats (like margarine compounds and margarine), as well as all fried food (fried in unknown oils or fats).
Food additives have to be taken into account when following Mediterranean Diet. Some food additives are good and other are very unsafe, so you have to control them. In origin, the Mediterranean diet has no artificial additives at all.
Mediterranean Diet basis are fruits (melons, pears, pineapples, oranges etc), vegetables (like tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, celery, onions..), frozen fish like tuna, unsalted cod or any other dark meat fish (all are very rich in Omega-3 fatty acids). If you prefer white fish that’s fine also. Many Mediterranean recipes include sardines, tuna in olive oil, pasta, olives, normal bread, chick peas, eggs, milk, nuts, cereals and muesli. Use normal bread; beware of the sliced soft bread (ever read the label on in? Do it next time). Of course, some Virgin olive oil is required also. Olive oil can vary in color from light yellow to dark green; in both cases if it’s Extra Virgin it’s equally healthy.
With all these groceries, you can prepare most of the Mediterranean Diet recipes. Salads, tuna, grilled fish, pasta, many dish with rice, poultry (for example, chicken breast with olive oil)..
If you pack your lunch to take it with you to work, take two or three pieces of east-eating fruit (like pears and apples).
The Mediterranean Diet is one of the freest diets in the world with no strict restrictions and banner foods. So if you sometimes go to the restaurants (not to often!), you can allow yourself to order anything you fancy. This treatment will be the prize you deserve and will help you (psychologically) because in your mind you can eat freely.
You and Mediterranean Diet
May 12, 2009 by admin
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The Mediterranean diet has been recognized as one of the healthiest diets in the world. Reasons are large amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits, salads, wine, nuts and seeds, abundant fiber rich beans, healthy fats from olive oil and fresh bread that provide your body with needed fibers and acids without excess calories intake.
Mediterranean diet is also the best diet for your heart because it reduces the amount of bad cholesterol since read meat intake is very low. Mediterranean diet is extremely easy to adapt to our fast pacing and stressful lives. Main factor in this diet appeal is its full, rich flavored foods and a vast variety of different foods so it can be followed easily, without much sacrifice. Mediterranean diet is very balanced diet rich in grains (rice, pasta), fish, fruits, beans and vegetables. If your goal is to lose weight or just to feel better and healthier, adopting the Mediterranean Diet is a great way to feel better and energized while enjoying very delicious variety of food.

