Traveling in the southern Europe, you can discover not only the beauty of historic sites and the nature of Greece, Italy, Cyprus and beyond, but also feel the taste of national cuisines which are famous as the healthiest cuisine in the world.
Everyone has heard about mediterranean diet, but far not everyone knows that it is easy to follow it with a lots of benefits. This diet it isn't a classic diet with a set of products wich can be eaten or not. It is more a life style with some common preferences of food.
The Mediterranean diet inspired by the traditional dietary patterns of Greece, southern Italy, Crete, and almost every country of the region, which has a different cuisines, but there are many characteristics common to them all:
This diet, in addition to regular sports activity, include a lot of plant foods, grains, fresh fruit as the typical daily dessert, Olive oil as the principal source of fat, dairy products - cheese (mozzarella, feta), yogurt, fish in moderate amounts, eggs , red meat consumed in low amounts, and some wine in low to moderate amounts.
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