The Mediterranean diet is a good health diet tradition that provides and contributes a well-being and pleasure and forms with vital part of the cultural heritage on the old centuries of Mediterranean regions including Crete and other parts of Greece and southern Italy. These diet is to enhance the well-being and overall risk of heart and other chronic diseases.

Benefits of the Mediterranean diet

In 2007, USA conducted a study and found that both men and women who are into Mediterranean diet lowered the risk of death from both cancer and heart disease.

Common Foods of the Mediterranean Diet

• Bread, pasta, grains — rice, couscous, polenta, potatoes
• Fruits — olives, avocados, grapes
• Vegetables — spinach, eggplant, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, mushrooms, garlic, capers
• Legumes, nuts — almonds, walnuts and other nuts; chick peas, white beans, lentils and other beans; peanutsOlive oil
• Cheese and yogurt
• Fish — shellfish, sardines
• Poultry — chicken
• Eggs
• Meat — veal, lamb