Mediterranean Diet Aids the Aging Brain: Study

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hello you have said 6 comments in the top and there are only 3 comments are you people playing pranks so only there is always recession in your country

Shabana sultana 5:48AM July 25, 2009

hello you have said 6 comments in the top and there are only 3 comments are you people playing pranks so only there is always recession in your country

Shabana sultana 5:47AM July 25, 2009

Before 1400 years before it was prophet Muhammed (sal) who told about this story that food of mediterranean food is gold and they would be in his hadees (saying book) and in The Holy Quran, it was Allah who said about his food which wil make people healthy and if we follow it we wil live long years.

Shabana Sultana 5:40AM July 25, 2009

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Pkwvdxct of WI 2:56PM July 15, 2009

hello my name is heidi i live in australia. im doing aged care course at college and we all have been asked to research a culture,regarding the aged,i have chosen greek orthodox.It is research on Cultural beleifs,religious beliefs,spiritual beleifs,diet,dying,berevement,family roles,hygiene.I have already completed some of these and what im understanding is with the aged greek people,nothing real has changed to now to when it was for the aged generetion,wondering if as to say the aged greeks are in a residential home facility,how would their diet be,to where it would be if they where at home?im really interested in orthodox.just curious,my paper due on wednesday.Example,fasting days,if on certain days their religious beliefs they eat a certain food on a certain day,etc.

Heidi donaldson 9:39PM March 27, 2009

if you start the meditarranean diet as you are younger will that decrease the posibility of getting those deseases even further? for example if you started as a teenager?

Bob Sagot of MD 4:54PM February 10, 2009

if you start the meditarranean diet as you are younger will that decrease the posibility of getting those deseases even further? for example if you started as a teenager?

Bob Sagot of MD 4:54PM February 10, 2009

The Mediterranean Diet as portrayed by the scientific community
is part true and part myth, but research money provides a nice income to researchers who have to come up with something in order to continue the research funding.
As a native of Greece myself, I know the standard Greek diet has been based mostly on bread, various pastas, grains, vegetables, olive oil, milk products, eggs, goat and sheep meat and fish. Islanders and coastal communities eat more fish, mountain communities are more on grains, goat and sheep meat and milk products. Fruits are limited to grapes only in mountains and higher elevation, and oranges, apples, sour cherries, figs, and melons on lower elevations- most of which are exported. I, therefore, consider the fruit factor in the Mediterranean diet quite exaggerated.
I believe the Mediterranean diet was exemplary 50 years ago [in my teen years] when 80% of the population lived in the countryside and the mountains, and they were self sufficient -except for salt and sulfuric acid to make their own soap. The daily trek to the mountains to tend the fields, and the the long day labor in pristine environment provided an exercise regiment that make nowadays tread mills a joke. But above all, there was NO stress! No real estate taxes, no utility bills
[oil lamps for light, wood for heat], mules, horses and burros
for transportation, looms for fabrics, and festivals and weddings that went on for 2-3 days. Medical care? None! Just
comfort that patient until they recovered or died.
Is nowadays commercialized Mediterranean Diet better that our American diet? No. That is why Indochinese, Hispanics and other cultures become unhealthy when emigrate here and start to
immerse themselves in the plethora of commercial food. The Greeks, Italians and the whole Mediterranean in general have arrived into the age of commercial foodstuff loaded with antibiotics, hormones, preservatives -such as sodium nitrite that causes cancer in laboratory animals- pesticides, fecal matter from plant processing, genetically modified grains, etc. On those we must add the taste buds. CBS "60 Minutes" Andy Rooney once looked at the package of a commercial product, counted 17 chemical ingredients added to the base product, bought all those ingredients in 17 bottles, arranged on his desk, dip his finger in each, licked some -including the "Iron" labeled bottle, and said the black powder inside was ground metal!
Can a Mediterranean Diet that contains all the commercial chemicals as listed above, plus CO2 and a soup of other pollutants in the air, questionable quality water, and stress to spare -especially on this nightmarish economic hole- be better than ours? Not a chance - unless we go back to the mountains and restart a natural and ascetic life. And as someone who has lived both the Natural [50 years ago], and the
Commercialized since then, I know there is no differences in today's world. Nikos Retsos, retired professor

Nikos Retsos of IL 12:05PM February 10, 2009