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Cretan Diet
The Cretan diet is simply a diet of humble people who leads a life of hard physical labor in the countryside, where meat and alcohol are reserved for special occasions, while the remaining products to be much more accessible, are widely consumed.
This rate rose to fame after the publication of a study in the 50s, whose conclusions were that the mortality rate for cardiovascular diseases of the Cretans is much lower than in other Western countries. The reason: food.
The Cretan diet is required to reduce fats and sugars. Second, the most important thing is knowing how to choose food: the amount does not matter too much, it is not necessary to weigh what you eat.
This menu based on healthy eating with fruits and vegetables or dry cereal, few animal fats and olive oil, which is the main source of lipids. The scheme includes fish, white meat and eggs several times a week, and fresh goat cheese and sheep.
Foods allowed in the Cretan diet
- Replace butter and margarine oils rich in monounsaturated fatty acids that reduce the rate of cholesterol as elaceite olive, rapeseed or soybean.
- Replace sugar with honey.
- Replacing red meat, rich in saturated fatty acids for poultry and rabbit meat.
- If you can, substitute milk products based on cow’s milk cheese from goat and sheep-fat yoghurt and skimmed milk.
- Fresh fruit, cooked or dried (400 g per day).
- Fresh and lightly cooked vegetables, lettuce, legumes and cereals, wholemeal bread or yeast.
- Fish, at least three times per week, rather oily fish.
- 1 or 2 glasses of red wine a day to the polyphenols.
- Fresh Herbs, which are good for health and pleasant to taste.