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You might have heard that the Mediterranean diet is good for you. But is it? Yes. Here’s why the Mediterranean diet is amazing for diabetes, dementia, blood pressure, heart disease, and more… but maybe not for weight loss.
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Correction:
11:00 This graphic contains a few typos! It should read “milk and dairy products” and “insulin”
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The reason that culturally people think that eating fat makes you fat is that the sugar industry spent untold millions of dollars in ad campaigns to make people ignore processed sugar.
Also the big thing about "Mediterranean diet" is that if you are actually from there. Diet, sun exposure, wind, temperature, bugs, greenery.. . . .. it all contributes to you as a animal who lives in this ecosystem. Malaysian or Eskimos hans 0 value from it, in fact, it goes into negatives. The best diet, it the one which is as simple as possible, its that follows your ecosystem, which you are a part of also. Humans arent exempt from life.
Who in the hell needed a trigger warning at the start of this video?!?
Every gym bro influencer worth his tren has been screaming that weight control is through calorie manipulation since YouTube began
Team tries to make a picture of "Mediterranean diet".
Big ass avocado in the middle
Great video but Did Anyone else have to slow this down to understand everything? He talks so fast.
You would think people who frequent a science channel would know it's literally just calories in versus calories out
for me it increased my ass from 90 to 95 cm
bottom line, eat less processed foods and increase the variety of healthy foods.
Could have swore he say I never turn down the excuse to eat more humans. It gives a different context to the video. 🙂
My grandma has a similar diet to Mediterrenian diet and even though she is 102 years old she is still active and she can do her house chourses by herself.
Oh i get it. Calorie restriction is a bad way to diet. One of the worst way actually. You have to eat until you are full and satisfied. Eating a Blue Zones or WFPB diet, its very easy to lose weight. You can basically eat whatever you want in whichever quantities and you will have great health. Dont starve yourself on a diet. Thats bad. Really bad.
Why does this guy move his hands so frantically? Is a coke head explaining a healthy diet? Relax guy!
It's weird to me to call this a diet to "follow", though. These are some great meals and a large portion of what I eat but I'm not trying to "stick to" something
im portuguese, our cuisine is wonderfull and tasty and surprisingly it tastes good even though we use very little to no spices, basicly salt, olive oil and one or two herbs is what youd find in most dishes, but also, the quality of the produce is soo good that using too many spices is actually masking the true flavour of the ingredients. I think most people havent truly tasted a nice grilled fish or meat just with a pinch of sal, a salad just with vinegar and olive oil, we do have complex dishes but the simple ones i believe are the tastiest and the most healthy
Hello 😊 it's very nice & informative. I liked it very much. I'm also a teacher from Lahore Pakistan.
Okay, I just opened a new tab about this (Mayo Clinic article) so my neurospicy brain won't forget to take notes about this. Gotta increase my efforts to get the diabetes under better control!
Looking at the food wheel 11:04 I love most of this stuff! (Okay, I just love to eat!) And I love to make chummus!
I think we need more info about what exactly define a Mediterranean diet, and some example meals
The disclaimer in the beginning of the video was wild 😢
That was a perfect TW. Love y’all so much for this❤
Jeepers, you move your hands and body appendages waaaaaaaaaay too much when talking.
The mediterranea 'diet' is not a diet but a lifestyle.
Fresh ingredients, freshly prepared. No fast food, other than an occasional freshly prepared pizza.
It's about a love of simple ingredients that combined are a delight. It's also about friends and family around the table.
🫵☹️ young man, please, i like red meat and cheese
Pronouns are cringe when nobody asked.
Salmon isn’t Mediterranean
Great timing, just started this diet for non alcoholic fatty liver disease.