Mediterranean diet

toniawold5629
toniawold5629 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 13 in Food and Nutrition
Heard from my doctor to try mediterranean diet what are your ideas?
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  • xbowhunter
    xbowhunter Posts: 1,223 Member
    Much better than the SAD! :)
  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 548 Member
    edited November 13
    I always wonder this:
    Is the Mediterranean diet the actual food eaten in the region
    *or*
    The type of eating that Americans imagine when they think about the Mediterranean?

    Im just going to throw this in- Lasagna could be considered Mediterranean.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,933 Member
    edited November 13
    Hobartlemagne wrote: »
    I always wonder this:
    Is the Mediterranean diet the actual food eaten in the region
    *or*
    The type of eating that Americans imagine when they think about the Mediterranean?

    Im just going to throw this in- Lasagna could be considered Mediterranean.

    Yeah, this! If the doctor really just said "try Med" then that's super vague and TO should ask for clarification on what the doctor recommends exactly. And what the aim of it is. Also, how would it differ to TO eats currently?
  • claireychn074
    claireychn074 Posts: 1,597 Member
    I also wonder if some of the benefits of the Mediterranean diet are due to the quality of the food i.e. fresh produce, grown locally, picked and eaten promptly. The vitamin content must be higher than the tasteless fruit and veg which is picked before it’s ripe and air freighted around the world. Or the produce which takes MONTHS to ripen because the weather is so bad (yes chillies and peppers in my garden in the UK - I’m looking at you).

    I just know that tomatoes and cucumber grown in the soil in the sun, rather than hydroponically in filtered UV, taste sooo much better.
  • Hobartlemagne
    Hobartlemagne Posts: 548 Member
    Ripe, quality produce IS more nutritious.
    I think another aspect may be- cheese is used as a garnish, and not so much as a bulk ingredient.

    I'll leave the meat speculations to someone else

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