Some weight loss companies have used The Mediterranean diet as a name for a diet consisting mainly of food that are eaten by the population of the Mediterranean countries. By eating such foods as one of the ways to increase metabolism in addition to calorie counting and exercise, people will lose weight fairly fast. Quite frankly, the variations in dieting culture among these countries and even within regions of each country is too broad to call it a specitic diet. So, rather than talking about a pure diet, it is more appropriate to call it the Mediterranean-style diet. Because even with all this variation in food culture and dieting practice, their dietary pattern has something in common:.
Besides the fact that they taste delicious, fruits also have many different healthy properties. Next to green vegetables, they should be a staple of your daily diet. The Food Guide Pyramid, which was developed by the US Department of Agriculture, is a new way of looking at which foods, and in what quantities, we should be eating each day. The foods are separated into colored strips, which are shown on the pyramid in a way to designate the amount and types of foods we eat. The color for fruits is red, and it comes in third in importance – just behind grains (which are orange) and vegetables (which are green). Depending on your sex and age, adults are advised to consume 1.5 to 2 cups of fruit a day. |