The Mediterranean Diet news 2008-06-25

The investigators evaluated 13,380 healthy Spanish university graduates without diabetes and followed them for an average of 4. 4 years. Using an extensive questionnaire to assess dietary habits, the researchers found that study participants who adhered closely to a Mediterranean-style diet how a lower risk of diabetes. The benefits of the Mediterranean diet even held for participants who had a higher baseline risk for developing diabetes based on weight, blood pressure, smoking history, and family history of the disease.

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Next, they found that dietary resveratrol mimics CR in the uptake of glucose in muscles. When they studied the molecular aspects of these by looking at which genes are activated and which de-activated by CR and by resveratrol, the finger pointed to the sirtuin genes. In effect, it appears that both CR and resveratrol may retard some aspects of ageing through alterations in chromatin structure.

The group used mice as experimental animals. To one group, they gave the control diet of 84 kilocal per week per animal, to the CR group they gave only 63, and to the third group they gave the control diet plus resveratrol as supplement.

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There are good fats, like those in olive oil, that are quite healthful, said Miguel A. Mart8nez-Gonz2lez, the lead author and a professor of epidemiology at the University of Navarra. We have to change this belief that a low-fat diet is the key to good health.

Scientists followed 13,380 healthy Spanish university graduates for an average of four and a half years, tracking their dietary habits and confirming new cases of diabetes through medical records. The study

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Patients who adhered more strictly to the Mediterranean diet reduced their relative risk of diabetes by 83 percent, a new study found. - Diabetes Diet and Nutrition Medicine and Health Mediterrean Diet Oils and Fats

Opportunities for consuming tuna in an environmentally friendly way are steadily diminishing. In the past the concern was for the "bycatch" species and ndash; that is, where other marine creatures such as dolphins were being accidentally caught. Accordingly, tuna could be certified as "dolphin-friendly". But now concern has moved on to the tuna itself. There is only one tuna fishery and ndash; the American Albacore Fishing Association in San Diego, California and ndash; which is certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. Other fisheries are cause for concern, but the worst is thought to be the Mediterranean and Atlantic fishery for bluefin tuna, which conservationists consider to be close to collapse. Recently the World Wide Fund for Nature called for a boycott by retailers, restaurants and consumers of Mediterranean bluefin

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The traditional Mediterranean diet is rich in vegetables: fruits, whole grain breads and cereals, legumes, and nuts as well as olive oil and fish.

Women who eat a Mediterranean diet while pregnant could help stave off asthma and allergies in their children.

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Women who eat a Mediterranean diet while pregnant could help stave off asthma and allergies in their children.

) - Legumes, are a powerhouse food and an almost perfect food in my opinion. Why Because they contain protein, high energy-yielding carbohydrates, fiber, folate, iron, potassium, phytochemicals and even calcium. Legumes are classified as a meat alternative because like meat, they contain a high amount of protein, but unlike meat they contain virtually no fat (remember red meats artery clogging kind of fat), and no cholesterol. They also contain carbohydrates unlike meat, that yield long-lasting energy. So, this week lets take a look at another popular Mediterranean Diet staple food, "Legumes".

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We will not be starving in the immediate future. The shortages did bring joy to at least one resident of the barrio. A Barcelona-based Edinburgh teenager of my acquaintance, who has not entirely embraced the Mediterranean diet, exultantly informed his mum that the supermarket had totally run out of vegetables.

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The traditional Mediterranean diet is rich in plant-based foods -- vegetables, fruits, whole grain breads and cereals, legumes, and nuts -- as well as olive oil and fish. Adherents consume low to moderate amounts of dairy products and eggs, lesser amounts of white meat, and infrequently eat red meat.

Some studies have suggested that such eating patterns can lower childrens odds of asthma symptoms and skin and nasal allergies. But its unclear whether women can affect their childrens future allergy risks by following a Mediterranean diet during pregnancy.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who eat a Mediterranean diet while pregnant could help stave off asthma and allergies in their children, a new study suggests. The traditional Mediterranean diet is rich - Online Report text item Canada

It seems odd to safeguard such a broad-based cuisine because regional diets are in a state of flux and have always been so. Certain elements of a cuisine must be fixed in time and place to preserve them, whether they be average menus, typical ingredients, or traditional preparations. Willetts study suggested Crete, some (but not all) of Greece and Southern Italy in the 1960s as the perfect but arbitrary point in time where the Mediterranean diet existed, despite all of the people in those regions eating completely different things.

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The mainstays of the Mediterranean diet are olive oil, fish, grains, fruit, nuts and vegetables, usually supplemented by a modest amount of red wine. Meat and dairy products have only a minor role.

Spain and Italy are to ask the U. N. s cultural body to place the Mediterranean diet on its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the Spanish government announced Tuesday.

Studies have praised the Mediterranean diet for cardiac and vascular health.

The initiative, supported by scientific organizations around the Mediterranean, was presented to the Spanish parliament by Development Minister Elena Espinosa.

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