The 6 principles of the Mediterranean diet

Today maintaining an healthy life is very difficult. The evolution and development of the occidental society has determined welfare but at what price? Now we have to defeat over weight problems like heart diseases, diabetes, cancer etc...

This is due essentially to:
* A sedentary life and too less time for physical activities
* More stress
* Losing the way to cook homemade foods

We add too much calories in respect of that ones we can consume.

But how can we resolve these problems?...Simple! By eating as a Mediterranean.

Most people think that the Mediterranean diet is a "Diet" but it's not so. The Mediterranean diet is the way to eat used by the people who live in the Mediterranean countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc...).

In fact it's not possible to establish exactly what are the typical recipes and foods of this diet because there are thousand variations.

Now let's examine the 6 principles of this diet...

N°1 The Mediterranean diet it's not expensive
Consider that to follow the most common diets like low carbs, detox, etc...you have to pay to buy specific foods. Instead the Mediterranean diet is based on simple foods, easily to find in the supermarkets.

N°2 The Mediterranean diet is tasty
Generally during a diet most people think it's boring and difficult because you have to eat not tasty foods. The Med diet it's not so. The main foods are healthy and tasty.

N°3 The Mediterranean diet is a long term diet
Most diet fails because they promise you (and they'll do...) to loose weight fast, but after you loose it, you'll gain it soon. The Mediterranean diet guarantees you long term weight maintenance.

N°4 The Mediterranean diet is Healthy
There are a lot of trusted studies and researches that confirm the health effects of this diet. It can prevent cancer, heart disease, hypertension and has a good anti-age effects.

N°5 The Mediterranean diet is trusted
If you do a research on the net to search info about the Mediterranean diet, you won't find no one that talks bad about this diet...

N°6 The Mediterranean diet helps you live longer
The results of putting together the 5 principles above is that you'll live longer. It's a statistical fact that people who live in the Mediterranean countries have a longer life then other populations.

So what you are waiting for?

Enrico Forte is an expert on diet plans and fitness exercise for weight loss. He is the editor of the blog http://www.mediterraneanbook.com "All about the Mediterranean: Diet, Culture and tourism".