The Basics

5 helpful things you need to know in order to understand and follow the Mediterranean Lifestyle. Mediterranean Lifestyle practices as told by a Mediterranean girl.

Adopting a Mediterranean diet can be easy and cheap. This leaflet is about the types and amounts of ingredients to eat in order to get maximum health benefit...

The traditional Mediterranean Diet (MD) pyramid has evolved to adopt the new way of life. As an initiative of the Mediterranean Diet Foundation and with the collaboration of numerous international entities, a wide range of experts in nutrition, anthropology, sociology and agriculture have reached a consensus in a new richer design with the incorporation of qualitative elements.

Embracing the Med Diet is all about making some simple but profound changes in the way you eat today, tomorrow, and for the rest of your life.

This is a detailed meal plan for the Mediterranean diet. Foods to eat, foods to avoid and a sample Mediterranean menu for one week.

Turns out, that although the emphasis in this eating pattern focuses on large consumption of vegetables, more fish and beans to replace meat, olive oil over butter, less sweets in favor of fruit, and whole grains instead of refined ones, there are several tenets that truly makes the Mediterranean Diet more effective beyond just the recommended foods.

The Mediterranean diet is a heart-healthy eating plan that emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds, and healthy fats.

The Mediterranean diet is a modern nutritional recommendation originally inspired by the dietary patterns of Greece, Southern Italy, France and Spain in the 1940s and 1950s.