Healthy Diet Plan

A new study published in the British Medical Journal shows that eating a Mediterranean diet focused on fruits, nuts, vegetables, seeds, and olive oil can extend life. Combining a Mediterranean diet with reduced meat intake, and consuming moderate amounts of alcohol can also contribute to longevity.

To preserve your cardiovascular system, it is important to have a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables and Omega3 fatty acids. Spanish research finds that Mediterranean diet is good for heart health and metabolic syndrome.

The Mediterranean diet, and a serving of nuts every day, control the metabolic syndrome - including weight problems, high cholesterol or hypertension - among seniors with a high risk of heart disease. This is what shows a Spanish study, published in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

Researchers from the Laval University have looked at the virtues and benefits of the Mediterranean diet. The research team of Dr. Benoît Lamarche, Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods of Laval University (INAF) has presented the results of research where they measured the virtues of a Mediterranean diet.

We have heard about the many benefits of the Mediterranean Diet. Food prepared with Mediterranean diet recipes have shown to to improve heart health, stroke, longevity*, diabetes and now helping COPD according to a Thorax study.

It is expected that by 2020 lung diseases collectively known as the chronic obstructive bronchopneumonia (COPD) will become a major cause of death worldwide.

The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet have long been proven to reduce hypertension and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels. This reduction, in turn, helps reduce the effects of heart disease and stroke. A new study in the May 11 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine looked at women, diet, and congestive heart failure (CHF).

The Kentucky Department for Public Health (DPH) is reaching out to the public and health care providers to educate more people about the dangers of consuming too much sodium, particularly among those at risk for or currently struggling with high blood pressure.

Many popular diets emphasize either carbohydrate, protein or fat as the best way to lose weight. However, there have been few studies lasting more than a year that evaluate the effect on weight loss of diets with different compositions of those nutrients.

Heart-healthy diets that reduce calorie intake — regardless of differing proportions of fat, protein, or carbohydrate — can help overweight and obese adults achieve and maintain weight loss, according to a study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

U.S. women whose diets most closely match the traditional Mediterranean diet — high in monounsaturated fat, plant proteins, whole grains and fish — are significantly less likely to develop heart disease and stroke, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

In a study of women who participated in the Nurses’ Health Study, those whose diets most closely resembled the Mediterranean one — compared to those whose diet least matched it — had a 29 percent reduction in heart disease risk and a 13 percent reduction in stroke risk.

According to the results of a recent study, eating a Mediterranean diet can help us with memory and brain health. The analysis shows us that good dietary habits play an important role in normal brain function. Consuming a Mediterranean diet is now found to lower our risk of cognitive decline, as well as decreasing the risk of progressing to Alzheimer's disease.