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[criesofthepast]

Thankfully I'm Greek and Italian. This bodes well for me. We go through olive oil like its water. My family history shows most people living into their 90's. Must be doing something right.

 

[SSM25]

Avocados are fruits?

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Shit, I have a can of sardines that I've been avoiding eating. I'm not too fond of sardines, but they sure are better than tuna.

I came to appreciate a sardine salad while in Spain.

 

[GenericUserName]

What kind of fish can I eat if I don't want mercury poisoning?

Carp, actually. As long as it hasn't been raised in water polluted with industrial or farming runoff, it should be safe to eat.

 

[IceCold]

What kind of fish can I eat if I don't want mercury poisoning?

Take a look at this:

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[OpinionatedCyborg]

WAT

This is wrong.

When I spent a month in Greece, I had practically no grain except restaurant bread. A bit of pasta once. It's a lot of seafood (mainly fish, a bit of octopus), vegetables, olive oil, meat, some dairy, a bit of grain. Oh, and a glass of alcohol. Meat monthly? That's crazy.

Grain was really not high at ALL on the list of things consumed, in fact in the meals themselves it was pretty much non-existent outside of occasional pasta/moussaka/etc.

It isn't wrong. That's what the diet is. You are confusing the Mediterranean Diet, a diet roughly based on what people eat in the mediterranean, with what people actually eat in the mediterranean (which can vary significantly from region to region). I posted that food pyramid because people often don't make that distinction.

 

[Bear]

My diet is more or less Mediterranean, most of my meals involve varying mixes of grains, legumes (beans, lentils) and fresh vegetables. Red meat isn't a part of my regular cooking, since a good grain and legume combination is in most ways a healthier source of complete protein than meat. I eat some white meat (mostly fish, some chicken) but not a whole lot, maybe once or twice a week.

It wasn't a big change from a typical middle eastern cooking anyway, and you can make plenty of great tasting, nutritious food.

 

[teruterubozu]

Take a look at this:

Perfect. I love anchovies on my pizza and caesar salads.

 

[captmorgan]

Losing weight diet is not always the same as a healthy diet nor is it always sign of a healthy diet.
I wish people would stop confusing the two.

Also, stop taking supplements. Those are only beneficial if you are deficient, say for instance vitamin D during the winter or if you are old. A good diet takes care of that.

Its hard to eat enough to get 150-200 grams of protein

 

[phisheep]

It's not that there's necessarily anything especially magic about the Mediterranean diet. It's just that all the other ones are worse for you.

As Winston Churchill was reputed to have said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried".