How about an easy way to reduce your calories, have more energy and feel lots better? Turns there is one – The Mediterranean diet. Along with this special diet, getting regular exercise and reducing your calories will lessen your chances of getting Type 2 diabetes. In a recent article in The New York Times, written by Nina Agrawal, we learn that a trial in Spain revealed that people who followed the Mediterranean diet were 30% less likely to get diabetes than people who just just followed a low-fat diet.
“The role of diet, exercise and weight loss in reducing diabetes risk was established in a landmark trial run by the Diabetes Prevention Program in 2002” Agrawal tells us. “Patients in the study saw a 58 percent reduction in their risk of getting diabetes.”
If you’re on the Mediterranean diet you are eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and meat, grains, nuts and olive oil – basically anything that’s fresh from nature. There’s lots of cookbooks out there that can get you started. Key to this diet is NO processed foods like hotdogs, boxed macaroni and cheese or cereal in a box. Since most of our food is processed sticking to a Mediterranean diet is a challenge at first especially for people who have not been eating a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables.
To read more of Nina’s article in The New York Times, click HERE.