A 'green' Mediterranean diet could lead to more weight loss, study finds

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The Mediterranean diet is regarded as one of the healthiest diets to follow, but what happens when you follow a 'greener' version of it?

“The main message of this study is that a Mediterranean diet further restricted in red meat consumption and with a parallel increase in green-plant–based protein with high polyphenol and phytosterols content may provide greater cardiometabolic protection compared to a healthy Mediterranean diet and it will aid in reducing LDL-cholesterol,” said study co-author Iris Shai, a professor of epidemiology and public health at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel and an adjunct...

“This was especially remarkable in the unusual and significant 4% reduction in 'bad' cholesterol and a 20% regression in low-grade systemic inflammation,” Shai said in an email. To explore whether the green form of the Mediterranean diet might be superior to the original, Shai and her colleagues rounded up 294 sedentary and moderately obese adults whose average age was 51 and randomly assigned them to one of three groups.

 

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Of course you'll lose weight eating a lot of shrubs.

I've been doing MD (apparently the green version) since March. I feel amazing, it's easy to follow and down 25 lbs. Definitely going to continue it throughout 2021. 👍

This diet’s not working for all the people in the Mediterranean. I’ve been to several of the countries there & the people are kind of THICK & the women have moustaches.

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