Is the Mediterranean diet the right diet to help you lose weight, balance your hormones and achieve optimal health or is it not as healthy as many of us have been led to believe?
If you’re on a journey with your health, you’ve probably looked into all kinds of diets, with the Mediterranean diet being one of them.
This type of diet originated from the Mediterranean area in southern Europe.
With the Mediterranean diet, you consume these foods:
- Lots of fruits and vegetables
- Grains
- Fats, including oils
- Some beans, fish, dairy and eggs
- Some limited red meat
Is this really a healthy diet? This is what I talk about in my video today:
Mediterranean Diet Myth
It is worth noting that the people of the island of Crete for example back in the 1950s ate a typical Mediterranean diet with the kinds of foods that I have just talked about.
Fast forward to the present day, and they eat a more standard western diet. And guess what?
Yes, their health has suffered because of it.
The Mediterranean diet contains animal products and oils and these still do raise health concerns of their own.
- Fish, for example, contains heavy metals like mercury, pesticides like DDT and industrial toxins like PCBs. (2)
- Eggs contain significant amounts of cholesterol and saturated fat, which are not healthy for the heart and raise levels of the growth hormone IGF-1 in the human body, which can raise the risk of cancer.
- Dairy can affect human hormone levels. A study found that children’s hormone levels went up 3 – 4 times more than their normal hormone baseline levels after consuming about 2 cups of milk. (3)
- Meat protein has been found to cause inflammation in human kidneys, which is in stark contrast to plant protein. (4) Plus, it raises levels of IGF-1 hormone in the human body and so raises the risk of cancer. (5,6,7,8,9)
- Oils are 100% fat, highly processed and devoid of protein, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins and many other nutrients. In fact, so high in calories are they that one pound of olive oil amounts to over 4,000 calories!
So what’s the answer with regards to the Mediterranean diet?
Watch the video above to discover more!
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https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/01.cir.103.13.1823
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United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. Release 27.
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26267220_Exposure_to_exogenous_estrogen_through_intake_of_commercial_milk_produced_from_pregnant_cows
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2609333
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LD Youngman, TC Campbell. Inhibition of aflatoxin B1-induced gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase positive (GGT+) hepatic preneoplastic foci and tumors by low protein diets: evidence that altered GGT+ foci indicate neoplastic potential, Carcinogenesis. 1992 Sept.; 13(9):1607-13.
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GE Dunaif, TC Campbell. Relative contribution of dietary protein level and aflatoxin B1 dose in generation of presumptive preneoplastic foci in rat liver. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1987 Feb.; 78(2):365-9.
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TC Campbell. Dietary protein, growth factors, and cancer. Am J Clin Nutr 2007; 85:1667.
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D Ornish, G Weidner, WR Fair, R Marlin, EB Pettengill, CJ Raisin, S Dunn-Emke, L Crutchfield, FN Jacobs, RJ Barnard, WJ Aronson, P McCormac, DJ McKnight, JD Fein, AM Dnistrian, J Weinstein, TH Ngo, NR Mendell, PR Carroll. Intensive lifestyle changes may affect the progression of prostate cancer. J Urol. 2005 Sept.; 174(3):1065-9; discussion 1069-70.`
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DL Kleinberg, TL Wood, PA Furth, AV Lee. Growth hormone and insulin-like growth factor-I in the transition from normal mammary development to preneoplastic mammary lesions. Endocr Rev. 2009 Feb.; 30(1):51-74. doi: 10.1210/er.2008-0022. Epub 2008 Dec 15.
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super cool video you got here! really enjoyed watching! cant wait for more from you soon! keep them coming! thanks 🙂
Thanks Gareth!
does your diet include cooked food in the transition period? do clients transition for days, weeks, months? do all clients eat 100% raw?
We help people eat both all raw (100%) and high raw.
Another awesome video. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
I wish you can talk about processed sugar feeding cancer because I think more than meat this is the case with cancer!
Not real food and sugar from fruits like these ketogenic diets trying to tell you because God’s sugar is natural… the white stuff is processed like heroin and cocaine.
This was a good video but can you please touch on this subject. Thanks?????
Hi Liann and thank you for your video idea! The problem with refined sugar is that it ‘s empty calories and offers nothing else to the body so it can build and maintain itself, including a strong immune system. Animal products on the other hand do contain nutrition for sure but come along with a host of other negative factors that make eating them a bad idea health-wise. There is so much science evidence for this now that it’s undeniable, but some people still choose to ignore the evidence.
How much fruits and vegetables you eat in a day?
Most of our calories come from fruits and vegetables so a lot. We buy fruits and vegetables in bulk.