The Mediterranean Diet

Famous for low heart disease

The French are second place to Japan

• The French eat 40 pounds of high fat cheese /person / year
• Butter, whipping cream, high fat, not the low fat non-sense
• no whole grains
• no oatmeal
• less pasta
• white bread leavened with yeast first
• lots of animal fat, butter, lard, duck fat
• egg yolk sauce, Bearnaise sauce, smothered on food
• little corn, canola, sunflower vegetable oils, boring taste

The 'actual' Mediterranean diet is healthy

High in these types of food:

1. garlic
2. Nitrates, nitrites, salami, sausage, 'cured' meats
3. Omega-3 lipids derived from animals, fatty fish, red meat
4. high fat dairy, whipping cream, butter-rich pastries
5. unbleached white flour, pasta, pizza, a culture of white flour
6. Omega-9 olive oil
7. French people tend to be trim, less obese

Low in these types of foods

1. whole wheat, oatmeal, brown breads
2. omega-6 vegetable oils
3. fewer carbohydrates, starch, pasta, beer
4. less sweet vegetables, peas, corn, onion

Summary:

1. high fat food: meat, eggs, dairy
2. less, nuts, seeds, starch, whole grains
3. no oatmeal
4. more garlic

Why aren't the French dropping like flies?

• Because they eat sensibly
• sit down
• enjoy their food
• de-stress with a glass of relaxing wine
• listen to some soft music while they eat
• not running while gulping a big soft drink constantly

The Internet is full of nonsense

Saying that the Mediterranean diet is

low in dairy?!?

• Yes, France has a coast line on the Mediterranean sea
• France has the lowest heart disease of any country second only to Japan
• The French eat 40 pounds of cheese per person per year
• Nonsense web pages suggest low dairy (Mayo Clinic!?!)
• The French diet is possibly why the Mediterranean diet is famous

Almost no oatmeal

• The French eat 1/4 the amount of oatmeal as American with high heart disease
• The French eat 4x the amount of garlic

Low in red meat?!?

• Mayo clinic fails again, Mediterraneans eat a diet high in red meat
• Steak tartar
• fatty duck liver, English: f w ɑː ˈ ɡ r ɑ: , French for '"fat liver"'

Nonsense web site example; Mayo Clinic - anti-health nonsense.