What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
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What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
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Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#2What if it's not diet.
I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy.
Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
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#3What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
Stats on this kind of thing are certainly difficult.
What if the med diet effect is from something like fasting?
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#4Valter Longo’s research has a good explanatory framework for this effect. For an introduction, The Longevity Diet (2016) is worth a read.
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#5What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
They are studying women in the US on the diet. I suppose they could consider other factors:
“A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health offers insights from a cohort study of women in the U.S. who reported consuming a Mediterranean-type diet. Researchers found a 25 percent reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease among study participants who consumed a diet rich in plants and olive oil and low in meats and sweets.”
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#6What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
Stats on this kind of thing are certainly difficult. What if the med diet effect is from something like fasting?
I can tell you I've struggled with my diet for years. The thing that I finally hit upon was intermittent fasting, and it gave me back energy and weight loss at the same time. And, it doesn't feel like a diet. It is my new lifestyle.
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#7What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
What if it's the lifestyle? You certainly feel more relaxed when living in Italy or Spain, people seem to prioritize a simple life full of social interactions. Work is something one needs to do, but does not get obsessed with. Talking from my own experience.
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#8What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
You are assuming that poorer means worse diet.
That is simply not true at all in relation to having a healthy diet, and the opposite is perhaps true.
In many places the traditional diet is healthy. Then, when people become richer they eat more, eat more meat, more fat, more sugar, more processed food, etc., and obesity and cardiovascular diseases shoot up.
Re: What's behind Mediterranean diet and lower cardiovascular risk
#9What if it's not diet. I read somewhere that Silicy has higher life expectancy although it's poor (probably worse healthcare) in comparison to North Italy. Maybe it's not diet but the family values? Maybe being family focused increases life expectancy despite having not superior diet.
It might be that a 'poorer' diet can be better. Reason being that they use more raw foods rich in fiber rather than processed flour, sugar, oil, etc.
See research on the Okinawan diet. People there had the some of the longest lifespans ever recorded and they ate mostly potatoes (albeit a very nutritious variety of purple sweet potato).
Today Okinawa is rich, there are 3 KFCs on the island, and their lifespan has declined.
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#10Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania found that extra-virgin olive oil contains an anti-inflammatory agent that acts similarly to how ibuprofen does. They named the substance oleocanthal:
https://www.monell.org/news/news_releases/olive_oil_contains...
So a lot of people in the Mediterranean consume an anti-inflammatory as part of their daily diet. I believe the thinking is that this is part of the lower cardiovascular risk, but not the only factor by any means.