The European countries around the Mediterranean--Italy, Greece, Spain--tend to
have a lower incidence of obesity, heart disease, and other lifestyle diseases
than the northern countries. They also have good life expectancy statistics,
especially considering that the average income per capita is much lower (30% or
so) here than in Scandinavia or the US. Since people here smoke at least as
much as people in the north, and exercise less, the only remaining variable is
the food they eat. This is not a "beyond reasonable doubt" kind of thing--you
will never get that when dealing with complex phenomena like this. But surely
common sense has a part to play too.
Cheers,
Nathan
On 27 Jul 2013, at 20:22, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> So you've defined the Spanish Mediterranean diet. What about the
> French, Italian, Croatian, Albanian, Greek and Turkish, etc. versions?
> And how is it that there is *no doubt* which is healthier? Can you
> remove all doubt about removing the confounding variables that plague
> all dietary research?
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> ps: I happen to agree that whatever a Mediterranean diet is it's
> *likely* more healthy than a full English breakfast. On the other hand
> I'm very far from agreeing that there's *no doubt* about it.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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> On 7/27/2013 1:45 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>> It is easy enough to define it when you live here. Compared to
>> Northern Europe (and the US), the diet here in Spain contains much
>> more seafood, more vegetables and less red meat. A traditional
>> breakfast food, for example, is a toasted baguette with ground-up
>> chunky tomato and some salt and pepper and a bit of olive oil to
>> taste. I very much enjoy my full English breakfasts when I am in the
>> UK, but there is no doubt which is the healthier diet.
>>
>> Cheers, Nathan
>>
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>> On Jul 27, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
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>>> I don't have any objections to a Mediterranean diet but I have
>>> never recommended it since I don't believe it can be well defined.
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