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Medical Forum / General / Nutrition / June 2005Modified Mediterranean diet and survival
I have mentioned the Mediterranean diet,ie. food tradition not weight control plan, as being among the more healthy and with longer life span. It has whole grain based foods, vegatables and fruits, milk and fish as primary protein sources and olive oil in place of animal based fats. As this study shows, it is this combination of plant foods and unsaturated fats that is most strongly related to it's benefits: http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7498/991 calypso47@voyager.net wrote in part: >I have mentioned the Mediterranean diet,ie. food tradition not weight >control plan, as being among the more healthy and with longer life span. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7498/991 It's a good bit of work, IMO. But it doesn't really determine which aspects of the "Modified Mediterranean Diet" are most important. There are some hints, but they are impossible to evaluate based on the study itself. But it does again show that such a diet as a whole is healthy. -- Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA jchinnis@alum.mit.edu :: calypso47@voyager.net wrote in part: :: [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] :: :: But it does again show that such a diet as a whole is healthy. It is also quite ashtonishing that the study does not mention omega-3 fatty acids which is probably the most important feature in the Mediterranean diet.  SignatureJuhana > :: calypso47@voyager.net wrote in part: > :: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > acids which is probably the most important feature in the Mediterranean > diet. Well.. the EPIC study is not a clinical study. You can not really look at a specific nutrient there and say: this nutrient caused [something] because people didn't live off a formula diet that consists of single nutrients mixed together but of actual food items where some nutrients are associated with beneficial and others with less beneficial other nutrients.. :: "Juhana Harju" <shantigiri@despammed.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag :: news:3gr6a9Fe3k8pU1@individual.net... [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] :: food items where some nutrients are associated with beneficial and :: others with less beneficial other nutrients.. I am not the only person who has paid attention to this deficit. I just read the rapid responses where this lack is discussed also. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/bmj.38415.644155.8Fv1#105406 SignatureJuhana |
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