Mediterranean diet is being hailed once again as the best heart healthy diet.
Adults who follow the Mediterranean diet closely can slash their risk of heart disease by a whopping 47 percent. What’s equally, or more, impressive (depending on your love/hate relationship with working out) is that this eating plan has an even greater protective effect on the heart than regular exercise.
Both findings were gleaned from an eleven-year study of the Mediterranean diet, presented Wednesday at the American College of Cardiology‘s 64th Annual Scientific Session in San Diego
Olive Oil, Dairy and Whole Grains
There’s also room for a little richness and indulgence on this diet, says Gans, a main researcher. “Healthy fats like olive oil and avocado are staples, choosing these over butter and margarine,” she says. “Modest dairy intake daily is also acceptable, like an ounce of cheese or a cup of Greek yogurt, as well as plenty of whole grains..”
We take issue with this because saturated fats like butter have been shown to not be an enemey to heart health and have their place in a healthy diet.
Additionally high fat dairy has shown to have more benefits then low fat dairy such as Greek Yogurts.
Whole grains of any kind are dangerous….
Because now days most wheat is a GMO and nothing like the wheat of only 50 years ago, so it turns to sugar when eaten and causes more inflammation to the body than sugar.
Healthy fats are naturally occurring fats, like saturated fat in grass fed meats, beef tallow, coconut oil and butter…
Actually if you cook something in Olive oil, it begins to become rancid soon after the item starts to cool…dairy should be raw and full fat…pasteurizing and homogenizing removes ALL the good stuff in milk, rendering it nothing more that whey filled sugar water.