The Unique Mediterranean Diet Helps You Live Longer

The Unique Mediterranean diet is the queen of diets, the best known in the universe of being. What is a source of beneficial effects for health, had already been amply demonstrated. Now it seems that our diets do indeed increase the life expectancy of two to three years.

The Unique Mediterranean diet helps you live longer

According to what is revealed by a study carried out by scholars of the Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg in Sweden, consistently taking fruit, vegetables, fish and sometimes pasta, while reducing the amount of animal products, it helps to "earn" a few more years of life.

The study, published in the journal "Age" and coordinated by an Italian, Gianluca Tognon, was conducted on two groups of Swedish seventies, one of which had adopted the Mediterranean diet (rich in fish, fruit and vegetables), while the second continued to follow a diet rich in animal protein such as meat and milk. The result was clear: those who brought food to the table the typical Mediterranean diet had a higher probability of living 20% longer. "This means in practice" - Tognon says - "that older people who follow a Mediterranean diet live about 2-3 years older than those that do not follow it." These data are confirmed by three other studies not yet published, the third of such an analysis conducted on children's health. "The conclusion we can draw from all these studies is that there is no doubt that the Unique Mediterranean diet is linked to better health, not only for the elderly, but also for young people," said Tognon.

Good news for all lovers of the Unique Mediterranean diet, they can continue to enjoy the typical dishes of our cuisine also obtaining an anti-aging!

The Mediterranean Diet Prolongs Life

The Unique Mediterranean diet, in 2010 and protected by UNESCO World Heritage Site, in addition to good physical health, prolongs life of 2-3 years. This is the result of a Swedish study that for forty years has monitored the diets of thousands of seventy of the province of Gothenburg.

The Mediterranean diet prolongs life

Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy have established in the research, published in the journal Age, which followed the Unique Mediterranean diet offers a 20% greater chance of living longer.

But what is the Unique Mediterranean diet in simple terms? The Unique Mediterranean diet is a nutritional model inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of the European countries of the Mediterranean basin, particularly Italy, southern France (especially Provence and Languedoc), Greece, Spain and Morocco. This nutritional model was abandoned during the economic boom of the sixties and seventies because it was deemed too poor and not very attractive compared to other models in particular from the rich food from America, but now the Unique Mediterranean diet is surely regaining between nutritional patterns, the 'consumers' interest and is experiencing a great diffusion.

The Unique Mediterranean diet is an eating style that emphasizes the consumption of fruits, vegetables, potatoes, vegetables, bread and fish. In particular, very popular among the vegetables is the tomato with its nutrients activates the metabolism and helps maintain the elasticity of the tissues.

Typical of the Unique Mediterranean diet is the extra-virgin olive oil, outstanding for its taste and its high digestibility, it is also rich in vegetable fats very useful for the health of the organism. Meals are usually accompanied by a glass of wine, a drink that when consumed moderately has numerous beneficial effects. Recent studies have shown that the Unique Mediterranean diet, with its peculiarities prevent cardiovascular disease and heart.

But be careful, dear Italians, because if the Unique Mediterranean diet prolongs life, we must do it well, and therefore do not use too much salt, in fact decrease as much as possible. People who follow the traditional Unique Mediterranean diet, in fact, even without adding salt, should reduce sodium intake: normal power exceed ten times the Italian daily sodium needs.

Each gram of salt contains about 0.4 g of sodium in normal conditions the need for an adult is 100-600 mg of sodium per day, approximately 0.25 to 1.5 grams of salt. The traditional Unique Mediterranean diet, which follows most of the Italians, though not unbalanced, provides on average about 12 grams of salt per day, greatly exceeding the daily needs of sodium.

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