UK Embarking on Mediterranean Diet

First things first, Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of poor coastal regions of southern Italy, Crete and coastal Greece in the 1960's.

Ideally, Mediterranean diet was introduced and popularized by Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard University, emphasizes on the abundant plant foods, fresh fruit as the typical dessert, olive oil as the principal source of fat, dairy products and fish and poultry consumed in low to moderate amounts. The diet also suggest that you have zero to four eggs consumed weekly, red meat consumed in low amounts and wine consumed in low to moderate amounts. Overall, this diet requires you to have 25% to 35% of calories with saturated fat at 8% or less.

At odds to some speculators, this diet will not require you to order and purchase ingredients and books away from UK because a plenty of experimentation and variety of inexpensive produced are available anywhere in the UK.

Tomato for example, is a staple ingredient of Mediterranean diet and one of the breakthroughs of this diet is the discovery of tomatoes, as a good source of lycopene, which is believe to reduce the risk of heart attack and cancer in the Mediterranean countries. The team from the University of Aberdeen believes that Mediterranean diet will greatly improve the lifestyle of UK especially in resolving the problem with cardiovascular diseases as the main causes of death in Scotland.

According to Dr. Frank Thies, who lead the team believes that there is a plenty of evidence, which suggests that in parts of Mediterranean, where tomatoes form a key part of the diet, the incidence of heart diseases is much lower.

Adding tomatoes on our diet is not a bad idea; the challenge to the government however, is how they going to make UK embark on this especially in every school cafeteria, where kids splurge into different kinds of unhealthy stuff.

I hope this story has been useful to you, until my next post. Live life and live it well!

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