February 2012

The Mediterranean Diet for Vegetarians

February 27, 2012

The Mediterranean diet is well known for its multitude of health benefits, but can it be followed by vegetarians with the same results? What is the Mediterranean Diet? This fresh food focused diet, based on the eating patterns of countries such as Greece, Italy and Spain situated on the Mediterranean coast, is widely regarded as […]

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Pomegranate in the Mediterranean Cuisine

February 24, 2012

Our recent Mediterranean diet culinary recipe for the special Valentine’s Day dinner included the use of pomegranate seeds. There are many Mediterranean diet recipes for Mediterranean foods, salads and desserts which have as one of their ingredients either pomegranate seeds or pomegranate juice or the pomegranate syrup known as grenadine. Pomegranate is definitely part of […]

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The Mediterranean diet shopping list

February 22, 2012

So you decided to get started with the Mediterranean diet, good choice! One of the things you need to take care is your shopping list. What food items you need to include in your cupboards to replace the not so healthy items of your current diet? We have gathered below the most common items that […]

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The Cretan Diet – the heart of the Mediterranean Diet

February 20, 2012

We will start the discussion about the Cretan Diet with the words of Serge Renaud, a great Mediterranean diet researcher and author of the French Paradox: ‘’ Do not look for a pill that substitutes the Cretan diet. There is none’’. The Cretan diet takes its name from the island of Crete, the largest Greek […]

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Chicken filled with mushrooms, fennel and pomegranate

February 13, 2012

For the special Valentine’s Day dinner we propose and a unique Mediterranean Diet culinary recipe: Chicken filled with mushrooms, fennel and pomegranate. This exquisite Mediterranean diet recipe has all the healthy ingredients of the Mediterranean diet, including the unique Mediterranean culinary herb, the fennel, and one of the healthiest Mediterranean fruits, the pomegranate. In this […]

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Fish Soup

February 2, 2012

We are still in the middle of the winter and soups are part of our daily menu. Fish is a basic component of the Mediterranean diet and making fish soup sets the scene for a winning combination. The culinary recipe that will be provided in not only a Mediterranean culinary recipe but it uses fish […]

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