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Mediterranean diet, health, heart attacks and longevity
Mediterranean diet is affected by life-style patterns in countries like Portugal, southern Spain, southern France, southern Italy, Greece, Crete, southern Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt etc.
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What is included in mediterranean diet?
This diet focuses heavily on cereals, grains, vegetables, dried beans, olive oil, garlic, fresh herbs, seafood, and fruit along with moderate amounts of alcohol, meat and poultry. Poultry are preferred over red meat. Butter, cream and lard are not part of the diet.
Epidemiological data has given rise to speculation about potential positive impact of Mediterranean diet on diseases like heart attack and whether the cost of such diet is worth it.
Mediterranean diet study
Doctors Dalziel, Segal, and de Lorgeril from Monash University in Australia searched the literature for high-quality studies examining the impact of Mediterranean diet in patients with history of anterior myocardial infarction or AMI (a type of heart attack). They published their findings in the Journal of Nutrition.
Dalziel and colleagues based most of their results on the data from The Lyon Diet Heart Study wherein patients were divided into two groups, i.e. Mediterranean diet or western diet.
Results of mediterranean diet study
- There were fewer cardiac deaths in Mediterranean diet group over an ensuing period of 4 years as compared to the western diet group.
- Consumption of Mediterranean diet is cost-effective strategy after heart attacks.
- Mediterranean diet in those with a previous anterior myocardial infarction (AMI) resulted in an estimated cost per quality adjusted life year gain of US$ 703, 579 per person. Thus, a regular consumption of such diet would improve health outcomes while decreasing the health care cost.
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Limitations of mediterranean diet study
Results were based on one study conducted in an area where many people don't consume Mediterranean diet as a routine.
Dr. Minocha's comments
I find data compelling and besides, I find Mediterranean food to be delicious. While it may be difficult for the uninitiated to eat any new type of diet consistently over long-term, diet everyday, one can easily incorporate those principles outlined above in one's normal cooking and recipes.
It should also be noted that multiple other studies have since corroborated above findings.
The Mediterranean diet is one of the two diets that align well with the 2015 dietary guidelines
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