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Feel good... look good... eat good... enjoy life more... enjoy more life!

Enjoy life more and enjoy more life via Mediterranean-style eating.

 

Get more enjoyment out of eating. Get the nutrition you need for the best possible health. Get back into that outfit. Get more joy out of life. Get more life to live. And give yourself and others the insights and resources needed to migrate to healthier living. Introducing the Mediterranean Harvest For Life® (MHFL) dietary regimen.

 

Affirmed by noted university nutrition scientists for its potential to impact health, MHFL encourages Mediterranean-style eating by highlighting great tasting and highly nutritious foods and by providing resources to help people make the switch to the healthiest possible style of eating.

 

Mediterranean Harvest For Life® provides information on the Mediterranean-style eating, highlighting how it's been proven in research study after research study to combat most major health problems: Alzheimer's disease; arteriosclerosis; asthma; birth defects; cancers; COPD; diabetes; heart conditions; high blood pressure; high cholesterol; metabolic syndrome; obesity; Parkinson's disease; peptic ulcers; rheumatoid arthritis; strokes; and more. Mediterranean-style eating can even help reverse some adverse health conditions.  Plus, shifting to Mediterranean-style eating can help reduce harmful emissions in the environment and can help make grains now used to feeding livestock available to feed hungry people worldwide.

 

In fact, the well-regarded WebMD website cited a top physician who called the Mediterranean diet "a divine mix"... wherein
“God knows what sorts of interactions take place within the foods, and we need further research to pinpoint them exactly".

 

Importantly, Mediterranean-style eating is not a "foreign" diet comprised of falafel, tabbouleh and grape leaves, but rather it represents a migration toward consuming a greater percentage of good-for-you foods while reducing food selections that have been proven to be harmful -- such as shfiting to a shis-ke-bab that incorporates more vegetables and fruits vs. eating a plate comprised primarily of meat and potatoes.  Refer to our MHFL Trapezoid for foods identified by experts as healthy and for  research and other tools describing the documentation of impacts and effective strategies.

 

NOTE: MHFL's goal is to provide access to and helpful packaging of: 1) published information related to the tremendous, cross-cutting health impacts of Mediterranean Style eating; and 2) insights published about specific foods, their functional attributes and their documented health impacts. Note: specific personal guidance on healthy eating should be sought exclusively from nutritionists, dieticians and physicians -- MHFL is neither of these.

Examine Compelling Research

Study after study shows the tremendous health impacts and support for losing weight available through Mediterranean-style eating.

Tap Tools for Healthy Eating

Discovering what experts have suggested we eat is made easy by a MHFL Trapezoid of qualifying food selections; a Healthy Eating & Living Plan (HELP); healthy cooking recipes; and more.

Engage Your Community

MHFL has been engaged to support numerous community initiatives and can provide valuable resources to help organizations improve health

UNSURPASSED HEALTH IMPACT POTENTIAL

Mediterranean-style eating has repeatedly ranked as the top dietary regimen by healthcare experts. No other healthcare strategy, medical procedure, technology, prescription drug, institution or insurance plan has been documented in research to produce as much benefit as Mediterranean-style eating. At virtually no cost. 


That's a FACT! 


It's been documented in longitudinal study after study as having the potential to help avert a large percentage of virtually every chronic illness. It's been shown extend life two to three years when engaged later in life -- and as much as 15 years when it's part of a change from very poor dietary and lifestyle habits earlier in life! It's truly a "cradle-to-(keep-you-out-of-the)-grave" solution for a better and longer life! 


In fact, 11 top physicians petitioned Great Britain's Prime Minister to bring Mediterranean-style eating to the forefront of their country's healthcare policy. 


Moreover, MHFL can help address the significant disparities in rates of chronic illnesses and mortality within racial and ethnic communities, by addressing a key root cause -- dietary patterns. Indeed, dietary intake and dietary behavior are key contributors to addressing these disparities. Given all this, shouldn't MHFL be in the forefront of both our healthy-living and healthcare strategies?

Mediterranean Harvest For Life has developed valuable support tools, based on extensive research, to help people and communities migrate to healthier eating. Tools include:
  • MHFL Trapezoid identifying what experts have identified as healthy foods to eat and foods to avoid to help people migrate to a new, healthier dietary regimen
  • MHFL Research documenting the tremendous health impacts of Mediterranean-style eating from longitudinal study after study
  • MHFL HELP (Healthy Eating & Living Plan) offering expert-published tips to help people eat right, for optimum health and improved lifestyles
  •  MHFL Nutrition Facts, documenting nutrients and calories per gram in various foods to help people select foods that will help them feel full without filling out
  • MHFL Recipes that people have enjoyed while migrating to healthier eating. (A cooking and menu creation hint: MHFL is not about "foreign foods;" it's about eating more of the right foods that people are already familiar with.)
  • The Best Of All Functional Foods document explaining how specific foods and ingredients can impact health and longevity
MHFL is a USDA My Plate Community Partner. MHFL has been engaged by several community groups to provide education and sampling of "evidence-based nutrition in healthcare."

MHFL ALSO DELIVERS ON 

THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 

-- "17 GOALS TO TRANSFORM OUR WORLD"

Beyond impacting health and wellbeing, shifting to a Mediterranean-style of eating will also help improve our environment. If everyone made the switch from our prevalent meat-based diets to Mediterranean-style eating, it would produce the equivalent emissions reduction of removing 1 billion cars from the road. Such a dietary shift could also shift the annual distribution of 1 billion tons of grain currently being used to feed livestock to enable the feeding 3.5 billion people instead! (If you were suffering from hunger or malnutrition, wouldn't you want this to happen?)


Mediterranean Harvest For Life is an efficacious, cross-cutting solution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals -- "17 Goals To Transform Our World." The SDGs that can be affected via MHFL include: wellbeing (SDG 3.4); eradicating hunger (SDG 2); responsible consumption and production (SDG 12); and climate impacts (SDG 13). Plus a share of funds spent on qualifying MHFL items will be directed toward programs to eradicate poverty and hunger around the world (SDGs 1 and 2).


MEDITERRANEAN-STYLE EATING ALSO EFFICACIOUSLY FULFILLS SOCIAL JUSTICE STRATEGIES


Mediterranean style eating can efficaciously address the social justice strategy of Act (on an issue)... Reflect (on the root cause)... and Transform (the issue at the root cause), by addressing dietary practices and gaps that have been identified by experts as impeding good health and contributing to chronic illnesses; by reducing environmental impacts of current eating patterns; and by redeploying the use of grain to feed more people globally.

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