Mediterranean Diet Puts Out the Flames

This article summary indicates that the Mediterranean diet decreases the markers for inflammation more than the standard Western diet. Chronic inflammation has been linked to range of conditions linked to heart disease, osteoporosis, cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s, type-2 diabetes, and arthritis. The findings are published online ahead of print in the journal Atherosclerosis.

The Mediterranean diet, therefore, helps reduce systemic inflammation, which can help decrease your liklihood of getting a heart attack.

All this attention on the Mediterranean Diet is great, and here’s why. This traditional way of eating — the diet, if you will — consists of food. The standard Western diet consists of faux foods.

When you eat real food, your body will respond by “righting itself”, nutritionally. Your body is built to be healthy, and you allow it to achieve optimal health by getting out of its way … and just eating food.