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    Cretan Diet: the top of the Mediterranean Diet !

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    Mediterranean diet is considered to be the healthiest diet today, by scientist worldwide. Olive oil, Cheese, honey, red wine, herbs etc have always been favorite products of Cretans, only from this blessed by nature island. These established the Cretans the longest living and healthiest people of the world, inspiring studies for the Mediterranean diet.

    Cretan diet, based on the genuine Cretan products. Products we would be happy to provide worldwide.

     

    -Meditteranean diet- definition page from Wikipedia:

     The Seven Countries Study found that Cretan men had exceptionally low death rates from heart disease, despite moderate to high intake of fat. The Cretan diet is similar to other traditional Mediterranean diets, consisting mostly of olive oil, bread, abundant fruit and vegetables, fish, and a moderate amount of dairy foods and wine....

     Crete, much of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy in the early 1960s`: this diet, in addition to `regular physical activity,` emphasizes `abundant plant foods, fresh fruit as the typical daily dessert, olive oil as the principal source of fat, dairy products (principally cheese and yogurt), and fish and poultry consumed in low to moderate amounts, zero to four eggs consumed weekly, red meat consumed in low amounts, and wine consumed in low to moderate amounts`. Total fat in this diet is 25% to 35% of calories, with saturated fat at 8% or less of calories.....

    Olive oil is particularly characteristic of the Mediterranean diet. It contains a very high level of monounsaturated fats, most notably oleic acid, which epidemiological studies suggest may be linked to a reduction in coronary heart disease risk. There is also evidence that the antioxidants in olive oil improve cholesterol regulation and LDL cholesterol reduction, and that it has other anti-inflammatory and anti-hypertensive effects....... 

    Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_diet




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