Want to Live Longer? – Try the Mediterranean Diet

When your mother forces you to eat the green vegetable and tells you that it’s good for you, she is most probably right. However, when she told you that milk would do you good, she is most probably wrong.

Recently, in the largest study of the Mediterranean diet, it is confirmed that people aged 60 who stick to the diet live longer than those who don’t. What is the Mediterranean diet? Diet that is high in fruits, vegetables and legumes but low in meat and dairy products and usually dressed with olive oil.

In a paper published in the British Medical Journal, a team from the University of Athens identified 74,607 men and women aged over 60 from European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition survey’s database. The team compared the death rates of the volunteers and the link to their diet. The result? People who stick to Mediterranean diet has lower mortality rates than those who don’t. The effect is strongest in Greece and Spain where a Mediterranean diet is more truly Mediterranean than elsewhere in the world.

If you cannot stick to pure Mediterranean diet or just do not have the luxury of using olive oil in every serving, don’t worry too much. The study concluded that as long as your diet is high in fruits and vegetables, your chances of dying early is still lower than most people in the world.

It also stated that "The modified Mediterranean diet is beneficial to health across populations…Adherence to a diet relying on plant foods and unsaturated lipids (fats) and that resembles the Mediterranean diet, may be particularly appropriate for elderly people"

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