A new study analyzing food intake data and health outcomes of nearly half a million UK residents has found that switching to a healthy diet – and sticking to it – can add up to 10 years to your life.

Finally, after two years of dedicated work on the vision of Meals For Longevity, I had the opportunity to use my very first recipe for its final review.

Specific ingredients of Mediterranean diet could prevent colorectal cancer by either reducing inflammation or preserving a healthy microbiota in the intestine.

The Mediterranean diet for type 1 diabetes

The odds of Parkinson’s disease decreased by higher Mediterranean diet adherence and increased by higher Western pattern adherence, especially sweets intake in this pattern, suggesting population ≥50 years should adhere to Mediterranean diet pattern and decrease the adherence to Western pattern, reducing the intake of sweets.

When expecting a baby the Mediterranean Diet can play an important role..

A holistic, systems approach is necessary to truly prevent disease and cultivate well-being using the lifestyle intervention tools of nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and connection.

Are you thinking in giving to your children the best healthy eating options?

Loneliness doubled mortality risk for women and nearly

doubled it for men.

Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet improves clinical scores and inflammatory markers in children and adolescents with mild-moderate active IBD.

The MD is optimal to ensure an adequate supply of nutrients during pregnancy. It provides all the energy and nutrients required to allow fetal growth and development, protecting from the development of obstetric pathologies including complications of childbirth, infections and alteration in fetal growth. The MD diet also can prevent some maternal complications such as diabetes, sleep quality and overweight or obesity.

This umbrella review was aimed at understanding if the Mediterranean diet can have a protective role against the development of age-related cognitive disorders.

The Mediterranean diet (Med-Diet) is considered the most effective dietary patterns to obtain weight loss in NAFLD patients.

Flavonoids are acknowledged for their beneficial effects on human health, including the mitigation of health risks from environmental pollutants. As here reviewed, the impairment of male fertility and gonadal development, as well as progression of cancers of reproductive systems of both sexes, due to the exposure of organic and inorganic pollutants, seemed to be counteracted by flavonoids in several pre-clinical and clinical studies.

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (aMED >median) was associated with reduced all-cause mortality in a general population. For people with diabetes, a dietary pattern concordant with both the DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet (DASH score >median and aMED >median) was associated with a lower risk of mortality.

Good adherence to the Mediterranean diet among university students is more associated with mornings chronotype and improved overall sleep quality and sleep components.

Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet affords sustained protection against type 2 diabetes and other insulin resistance states.

The present study compared a Mediterranean and a vegan diet for their effects on weight and cardiometabolic parameters, using a cross-over design. Based on the findings of prior studies, it tested the hypothesis that, compared with a Mediterranean diet, a low-fat vegan diet results in greater changes in body weight, total and LDL-cholesterol concentrations, and insulin sensitivity.

The objectives of the present epidemiological study were to identify and describe dietary patterns in a population-based cohort of pregnant women in Crete, Greece, and determine prospectively the association between habitual dietary patterns during pregnancy and the risk for postpartum depression.