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How do you ‘eat healthy’? (sh.itjust.works)
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Given than nobody can seem to agree on what a ‘healthy diet’ looks like, what do you do? And why do you choose that diet?

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[–] -2 points 6 hours ago* (2 children)

The science is actually clear: Mediterranean diet extends life. Mediterranean diet + wine extends it even more.

This means:

  • avoid red meat
  • eat a lot of legumes (yes, beans!). stews prepared on the base of tomato are really good for you*
  • eat vegetables
  • eat fish
  • add some nuts and fruit
  • some white meat is ok
  • glass of wine a day

It's scientifically proven that this is good for you.

*look for traditional Spanish recipes for fabada, lentejas, garbanzos etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    It's also scientifically proven that any amount of alcohol is harmful, it might have some slight benefits but it's such in small quantity that it's practically non existing.

    I'm not sure if the Mediterranean diet is actually proven or just a consequence of the economy boom that happened when most old persons were young, so they had the money for good healthcare and food was grown in more natural ways.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    It is proven: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313348

    The available evidence is large, strong, and consistent. Better conformity with the traditional MedDiet is associated with better cardiovascular health outcomes, including clinically meaningful reductions in rates of coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, and total cardiovascular disease.

    For the last couple of decades many trials were done with thousands of participants and the results are strong and consistent.

    As for wine, results of Predimed study (17k participants) showed that Mediterranean diet reduced mortality by 23%. Mediterranean diet with wine reduced mortality by 33%.

    https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurheartj/ehag696/8786407

    updated and longer GBD analyses published four years later concluded that, among adults older than 40 years, low-to-moderate alcohol consumption was associated with lower all-cause mortality than abstention.3 Likewise, the 2025 report by the U.S. Academies concluded that moderate drinking, up to two drinks per day in men or one in women, was “associated with lower all-cause mortality” with moderate certainty.

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