Mediterranean cuisine is the basis of the so-popular and successful Mediterranean Diet, which focuses on deliciously fresh food that boosts your health and well-being. The diet puts an emphasis on ingredients that have been proven to promote health, including fish, vegetables, whole grains, and good-for-you fats such as olive oil. Mediterranean Diet magazine builds on the flavors and cooking styles of the area with easy Mediterranean meals, snacks, drinks, and even sweets. The on-trend stories focus on fun ideas such as Mediterranean coastal cuisine, great starts for the morning, plant-centric recipes, fresh flatbread toppers, big-platter salads, healthful pasta dishes, garlic-based sides and mains, flavorful sauces and condiments, and recipes with nutritious ancient grains. These recipes are wholesome, delicious, and as fresh as they come.
Mediterranean Diet • A Delicious Path to Lifelong Health
A Timeless (and Timely) Way to Eat • Long-term studies have shown that people who adhere to the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle have a lower risk of developing diseases like diabetes, tend to live longer and age with grace. Here’s what eating and living like a Mediterranean means and how you can adopt these principles no matter where you live.
Better Your Health • Research suggests that the benefits of following a Mediterranean-style eating pattern may be many: improved weight loss, better control of blood glucose (sugar) levels and reduced risk of depression, to name a few.
The Heart of It • The Mediterranean diet is focused on food and lifestyle choices that have significant coronary benefits, including helping prevent heart disease and keeping cholesterol levels in check.
All About Olive Oil • Here we dish on everything about this Mediterranean-diet staple, from its health benefits to how to store it, plus our secrets on which olive oil is best and how to use it.
Take a Bite Out of the Blues • As if reducing your risk of heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes weren’t enough, the Mediterranean diet also works wonders on your mood.
Eat for Brain Health • What you eat and what you don’t may have a huge impact on your mind. Scientists are discovering that the MIND diet, which is rooted in Mediterranean principles, can help you stay as sharp as a tack.
Stave Off Inflammation • Fans of anti-inflammatory diets say these regimens can transform you inside and out. But this Hollywood health “fad” is rooted in the same key principles that make the Mediterranean diet so healthy.
A Simple and Customizable Way to Manage Weight • One of the best things about the Mediterranean diet is how easy it is to adapt and stick to. That means that the eating plan is not only healthy, it’s also a reliable approach for tackling weight-related goals in a nutritious and sustainable way.
Exploring The Diet’s Roots • The Mediterranean diet offers a cuisine rich in colors, tastes and traditions. Here’s a look at some of the places in the Mediterranean from which the eating plan draws its lessons.
The Real Mediterranean Diet • The first detailed study of this storied heart-healthy diet goes all the way back to the 1940s on Crete—the largest of the Greek islands in the Mediterranean. Find out what the island’s inhabitants were doing so right. Their lessons might astonish you.
Cook Like They Do in Crete • These recipes are inspired by the local Greek dishes found in Crete. The meals embrace the healthy tenets of the Mediterranean diet.
My Big, Fat Greek Diet • In this humorous essay, an American shares her experience with the famed “healthy” Mediterranean diet: You will eat french-fry-stuffed gyros in Mykonos and doughnuts on the beach in Crete and go home with a little more (ahem) baggage than you arrived with. At least she did.
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