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Authors Miles Hassell, MD and Mea Hassell continue to help many with their evidence-based Mediterranean diet and lifestyle guide. Transforming your health with food and activity choices is the focus of this book. The subtitle could have been, “How a Greek grandmother would solve the health care crisis.” Most of the dietary guidelines in these pages favor the same simple, traditional whole foods that grandmothers throughout the Mediterranean have prepared for thousands of years – fish, leafy greens, garlic, chickpeas, yogurt, meat, cheese, eggs, and fresh pressed olive oil.
Everyday food back then, trendy superfoods today. When served up with daily exercise and adequate sleep, these foods are powerful medicine for treating or preventing heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, obesity, osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, heartburn, and ADHD. For most of us, the decisions we make concerning the food we eat and our exercise and sleep habits have far greater impact on our long-term health than the genes inherited from our parents or prescriptions handed to us by our physicians. In fact, healthy lifestyle choices can often out-perform medicines and surgical procedures. For example, if you have heart disease or have had a stroke, you might reduce the risk of a future cardiovascular event by 72% with a Mediterranean diet (page 16) and by 47% with exercise (page 71). Now that should get our attention!
Good Food Great Medicine, 4th edition