Health Impacts
Want to live longer? Take Your MEDS -- the Mediterranean Harvest For Life dietary regimen that is.
While we're not offering this as medical advice, and furthermore, while we must advise you to only rely on medical professionals for medical advice and support -- we can't help but encourage you to eat Mediterranean based on the awesome health merits in this style of eating. And we encourage you to look to MHFL for distinct support for improving your health and longevity.
Consider the incredible medical benefits of MHFL as documented in real-world studies:
Click on this link to get the Mediterranean Harvest For Life Research Document detailing all the health merits of this healthy eating regimen.
Mediterranean style eating cuts the risk of heart attacks in half. If you already have heart disease and you eat a Mediterranean diet, there's a good chance that your cholesterol level will fall and you're also likely to reduce your risk of having a heart attack or a stroke -- in fact you're 70 percent less likely to die from heart disease.
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In fact, heart surgery patients are often discharged from hospital with instructions to adopt a Mediterranean style of eating. But until now, there's not been a support system to help them fulfill on this critical lifestyle management strategy.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs cost us $13.0 billion a year but lower our health risks only half as much as Mediterranean style eating.
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Go Mediterranean, add exercise, and expect your blood vessels to be healthier in just 8 weeks.
Mediterranean eating was associated with 50% less risk of developing COPD vs. eating Western diets. Men who ate a predominantly Western diet were more than four times as likely to develop COPD compared to those who ate Mediterranean-style.
Up to 25% of colorectal cancer, 15% of breast cancer and 10% of prostate cancer could be prevented if populations would shift to the Mediterranean dietary regimen.
Patients eating a Mediterranean diet had less than half the number of new cases of cancer than those eating traditional diet.
Even compared to the American Heart Association diet, those eating Mediterranean had 61% fewer Cancers.
Those most faithful to Mediterranean eating were about 40% less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's patients who ate Mediterranean very religiously lived an average of 4 years longer than those who didn't.
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Look better, too: People who eat a Mediterranean dietary regimen are 60% less likely to be obese. Conversely, where people abandoned this style of eating, obesity jumped 45% in just six years.
Mediterranean-style eating might even lower chances of getting type 2 diabetes. If people already have metabolic syndrome, following a Mediterranean-style diet might help them treat themselves.
MHFL Can Be Your A Cradle-To-(Help Keep You Out Of The)-Grave Solution:
Take Your MEDS (MHFL dietary regimen) While Pregnant For Fewer Birth Defects:
The Global Report on Birth Defects published by the March of Dimes notes eight million affected babies are born each year, of whom 3.3 million die before they reach the age of five. (That's a greater toll than from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.)
A further 3.2 million of those who survive may be mentally and physically disabled for life.
But the toll could be reduced if their mothers ate more fruit and vegetables as in Mediterranean countries, researchers say.
A high daily intake of leafy vegetables, high in folic acid and a staple of most Mediterranean cooking regimes, ensures that France, Italy and Spain fare significantly better than other nations in avoiding defects such as congenital heart problems and spina bifida.
Then Take Your MEDS to Stay Out Of The Grave:
No matter how you've eaten in your past, you may be able to improve your longevity -- even men who started at age 60 added a year to their lives on average. Even individuals between the ages of 70 and 90 who ate Mediterranean style experienced a 23% lower risk of death from all causes. And people who had Alzheimer's disease increased their life span by 1.3 to 4 years, depending on how closely they followed the Mediterranean style of eating.
All this and more is summarized in the MHFL Research Document.
