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Live healthy, longer, with the Colourful Mediterranean diet
For the sixth consecutive year the Rainbow Diet has been voted the healthiest diet in the world, and also the healthiest plant-based diet, by professors, dieticians, nutritionists and health experts brought together by US Today. The authentic Rainbow Diet encompasses, Whole nutrient-dense foods such as pulses (legumes) and whole grains, Locally grown and in-season vegetables and fruits, Nuts (walnuts, almonds)…
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How ‘experts’ get SIBO wrong
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO), where an excess of bacteria and yeasts inhabit the small intestine, is far more common than people think and often confused with IBS and gut lining damage when its prime causes are lack of acidity and gut motility. The Symptoms of SIBO These include bloating, gas, a sudden change to either diarrhoea or constipation and…
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You can grow brain cells and be brighter, longer
Healthy ageing and the production of new neurons in your Hippocampus is linked to exercise, and foods common in the Mediterranean Diet. It has long been thought that you could not grow new nerve or brain cells once you reached a certain age, and that issues such as depression may have led to irreversible damage. None of this now turns…
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The Mediterranean diet and heathier ageing in women
Greater adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in mid-life results in a 46% increase in healthier ageing amongst women in terms of reaching 70 years of age and being free of chronic illness. Analysing the dietary data of 10,670 women in the Boston Nurses Study, using dietary data from both 1984 and 1986, those women who adhered most closely to the…
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Mediterranean Diet and greater cognitive function
Long-term adherence to a Mediterranean diet is linked to a significantly improved cognitive function in men from The Health Professionals’ Follow-up study. The Study, involved 51,529 men, 40–75 years of age when enrolled in 1986, of whom 27,842 were included in the primary analysis. The use of a Mediterranean diet (MD) was taken from a mean of five food frequency…
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