Go Green Mediterranean to Lose Fat, Gain Health

Health News Update: Go Green Mediterranean to Lose Fat, Gain Health                       9.29.25

Hey there everybody: Because food is foundational to all aspects of health, it is important to make sure the foundation of your health is built upon the good stuff…we do not want a crumbling foundation built of low-quality materials…we want the absolute best building blocks to sustain and maintain a healthy Temple. So, if we look around at what the media portrays as ‘food’, it can become confusing as to what is best to eat. Can we trust the media to give us what is good for us, or are they giving us what is good for their share-holders?

Fortunately, we can still turn to research and science to answer this question. To be sure, the final and absolute answer is not available just now. Yet the science is advancing rapidly and now we have decent information available if we dig for it. Thus, it is not widely known that there is more of a scientific consensus on what type of food plan best supports a long health span and longer lifespan than what commercials would lead us to believe. Here is a good place to start:  

• A recent study showed the “green” Mediterranean diet reduced visceral fat by 14%, twice as much as the classic Mediterranean diet (MED), which reduced visceral fat by 7%.
• The benefits of the green MED diet include a reduced risk of developing diabetes, cardiovascular disease, depression, and cognitive decline. 
• The green MED diet is also shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and may be more protective against age-related brain atrophy than the traditional MED diet.
• According to experts, polyphenols (only available from plants) play a major role in the effectiveness of the green MED diet.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/green-mediterranean-diet-reduces-visceral-fat-by-14 Green Med Diet excellent

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-022-02525-8 Green med diet healthy

Bottom Line: Basically, the Green Mediterranean Diet (GMD) is best seen as an unprocessed, whole-food, predominantly plant-based food plan with high marks for health promotion. One of the primary properties of the GMD is that is great at lowering inflammation. Yeah, for that…plus it can be super delicious. I have searched for GMD cookbooks and found several but overall, they were of pretty low quality (in my opinion). Here is some more info on how to go Green plus a good GMD cookbook I did purchase and am happy with:

https://www.health.com/green-mediterranean-diet-7095181 info on Green Med diet

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-everything-green-mediterranean-cookbook-peter-minaki/1138725620 cookbook