For safe weight loss and total health, nothing beats some form of a Mediterranean Diet, which consists of eating vegetables and lean meats, especially seafood.
Named after the area where it has traditionally been practiced by Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, and others living along the coast, the Mediterranean Diet is a nutritionist’s dream: at its core are lots of vegetables, flavored with olives and olive oil and vinegar; protein is delivered in the form of leans meats like grilled chicken or fish and shellfish, in addition to eggs and cheese – and that’s it.
That’s all there is to it.
It’s all very straight-forward and not too shocking, except perhaps for its benefits.
That’s because given the way things are these days, one might suppose to lose weight and be healthy must mean converting to veganism, but the Mediterranean Diet proves that balance is what’s most critical.
Mostly vegetables, with a limited amount of animal protein, all flavored by healthy oils such as that made from olives.
Easy.
In fact, it’s not that complicated.
Human beings have been on the planet for millions of years now, and our tastes have not changed that much.
In reality, it isn’t our diets so much as our modern sedentary lifestyles that are at fault.
Army infantrymen and Amish farmers prove this.
Given to rigorous physical exercise each day almost every day, these two categories of people take in huge amounts of fat, salt, and sugar on a normal and frequent basis and are usually healthy.
But due to all the manual labor they engage in, such nutrients – for that is what fat, salt, and sugar are: nutrients – are employed by the body rather than simply clogging it up.
Hence, in addition to a Mediterranean way of eating, we might do well to also emulate a Mediterranean lifetsyle of work, sun, and siesta!
