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DESCRIPTION: What was it about the diet on the Greek isle of Crete in the 1950s that made it so healthy?
This is the first of a 6-part video series on the Mediterranean diet. Normally I’d split these up so it’s not day after day of the same topic, but I figure there is enough general interest in the subject that it was worth the Mediterranean marathon. The next five are:
2. The Mediterranean Diet or a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet? (
3. PREDIMED: Does Eating Nuts Prevent Strokes? (
4. Which Parts of the Mediterranean Diet Extended Life? (
5. Do Flexitarians Live Longer? (
6. Improving on the Mediterranean Diet (
I’ve mentioned the Mediterranean diet before, but never in this depth:
• 50 Shades of Greens (
• Methionine Restriction as a Life Extension Strategy (
• Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease with Diet (
More information on heme iron:
Risk Associated With Iron Supplements (
More information on magnesium in How Do Nuts Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death? ( and Mineral of the Year—Magnesium (
And more on polyphenols in videos like How to Slow Brain Aging by Two Years ( and Juicing Removes More Than Just Fiber (
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