Mediterranean diet: A heart-healthy plan for life
The Mediterranean diet has proven beneficial effects not only regarding metabolic syndrome, but also on its individual components including waist circumference, HDL-cholesterol levels, triglycerides levels, blood pressure levels and glucose metabolism, according to a new study. The study is a meta-analysis, including results of 50 studies on the Mediterranean diet, with an overall studied population of about half a million subjects.
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Mediterranean diet: A heart-healthy plan for life
March 7, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: blood-pressure, effects-not, glucose-metabolism, including-results, its-individual, mediterranean, metabolic-syndrome, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, only-regarding, overall-studied, proven-beneficial, waist-circumference