A diet rich in olive oil, nuts and other Mediterranean foods reduces the risk of heart attack, stroke or death from heart disease by up to 30 percent, according to a new study published Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine. We observed that an energy-unrestricted Mediterranean diet, supplemented with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts, resulted in a substantial reduction in the risk of major cardiovascular events among high-risk persons, the study stated. Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association, described the findings of the study as really impressive. http://en.rian.ru/science/20130225/...ramatically-Cuts-Heart-Attack-Risk-Study.html
This is a bit of old news, but it's valid none the less. Diet isn't the only factor. Most med society tends to live less stressful life, or if you prefer, a slower paced lifestyle. They aren't as goal oriented as the western society are.
This time it was proven, anyway I always knew that. Thirty years ago I would tell my mother not to pay attention to doctors, and that olive oil was healthy. She wouldn't listen to me and she died young from heart desease. These aren't the only problems we have, it seems our genetically engineered wheat is causing gluten intolerance in many people, and our farm raised fish is fed junk and has no nutritional value. I could go on an on about our food, and from what countries people should get their food, but I'm not out to destroy our economy. Besides if too many people found out the prices would go up, and I wouldn't be able to afford it.. As for you Jack, enjoy your horsemeat.
This is well know a very long time ago. Seems this Rachel should not be a nutrition professor if she just discovered this fact. The Middle East eats mainly fresh foods. We do not eat convenience foods like the West. Our meals are cooked from produce bought mostly daily and we eat what is also in season. Our fruits at the moment are citrus and strawberries, then soon they will be guava and figs so we eat all the fruits when they come into season like the vegetables. That means we get everything in the right order instead of like the West who eat a lot less fruits and vegetables than us. We also eat less meat with more fresh fish and chicken. Sweet things are only eaten rarely really here as we prefer fruit after meals. Although Egyptians do like sweet tea but bitter coffee. The bad thing about Egypt is we use fresh butter more than olive oil in cooking. But we don't eat butter on bread like West do. The frying is more in the French style with ghee than Italian. Too many Western outlets like Mc Donalds are causing problems in the Middle East and kids especially in the Gulf are getting fat and unhealthy like Americans now and getting diabetes. What was a very healthy eating culture in the Gulf is now becoming very unhealthy with too much Western fast food chains in malls now and Gulfies not working and moving about getting exercise.
there was a study done on wwii statics. countries who where occupied and had their meat taken away by the germans saw a large drop in heart related diseases.
The health benefits of this diet have been well known for a long time! I guess a lot of people are just too lazy to eat it, it's much easier to visit Burger King.
makes sense we also dont eat pork or pork products like bacons and hams with all those nitrites in them etc simply fresh food is the best most women also work in the West so they say they have no time for cooking family meals like their mothers did so Pizza and Burgers are the dinners the kids grow up with in West or those horrible boxes with dinners in them you get in the freezers
There is nothing wrong with pork. In fact pork is one of the most efficient meat to produce. You feed a pig one pound of food and you get one pound of meat in return. Pork is also a lean meat, since the fat is located on the surface and can be pealed away like a banana leaving meat as fat free as chicken. Bacon is fat by design, since it comes from the ribs where there isn't that much meat to begins with. As for nitrites, they are used in sausages and cold cuts, which are made from just about every kind of meats, not just pork. My second "beef" with your post, is the comment about working women not having the time to cook. It may come as a shock to you, but cooking here isn't only the affair of the women folks. Also, if you count the multitudes of cooking and nutritionnals tv channels and show, you would be wrong in believing that we aren't cooking our own meals. I'm sure some news outlet likes to present the western population as degenerate obese loser in an attempt to boost their nationals moral, but we ain't even close to be like that. Quite the contrary, the gyms are full, the after school sport program are quite popular.
I like a certain imported cheese, and we have a large discount store in the U.S. where I can buy it in large chunks and at a very reasonable price. I decided to check up on the company to see if the cows grazed on grass and if it contained 'tonalin; (CLA), a certain fat with certain health benefits. Well it turned out it did, but in researching it I also found out that 'tonalin' reduces tumors sixty to eighty percent. In other words it's a cancer preventive. Now why aren't we being told? Instead the small farms in the U.S. who graze their cows, sheep and goats are kept from expanding by a million and one government regulations.
We have a place that opened up which serves real 'beef' from Australia. Kind of reminds one of the hamburgers thirty years ago, before they started putting in all those flavor enhancers. Food though is an acquired taste, for example I always loved my butter. I knew though that scrambled eggs with olive oil was preferred in Greece and much healthier, so I began eliminating the butter little by little and began adding more and more olive oil. Now I love it, so much in fact that I cook everything in olive oil. There are some light fruity olive oils such as the ones from Tuscany, but I prefer the extra virgin from Kalamata...and it's not too expensive. I still love my fresh butter, and now that I know milk products have health benefits when the animals graze, I can eat it with no guilt.
