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Living a Mediterranean lifestyle with good food, good friends and adequate rest may cut your odds of dying prematurely by 29 percent. A study suggests people can live longer by copying the habits of those in countries like Italy and Spain, even if they don’t live there. Researchers looked at 110,799 people in the UK, aged 40 to 75, who were asked q...

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I had my annual checkup Wednesday. Besides the all-day exams costing only €452 as compared to nearly $3,000 for the same tests in the larcenous U.S., the other good news is I received a clean bill of health. I’m lucky. Deadly diseases often pick victims at random. Good genes are inherited, not earned. But there’s another reason I’m 67 and in no fea...

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The basis of a good state of health throughout our life, among various recommendations, is to follow a balanced diet, perfectly embodied by the Mediterranean diet. The benefits of this diet are widely demonstrated in the medical and epidemiological literature of recent years and tell us that, those who follow the principles of this diet, are more r...

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People who consumed foods from the plant-based Mediterranean and brain-focused MIND diets had fewer of the hallmark signs of Alzheimer's — sticky beta-amyloid plaques and tau tangles in the brain when autopsied, a new study found. The MIND diet is short for Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. In fact, people who most c...

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Looking to make dietary changes in 2023? There are plenty of options if you're on the hunt for a new meal plan or hoping to make some lifestyle changes when it comes to food. One way of eating continues to top the list for experts. The Mediterranean diet ranked No. 1 on U.S. News & World Report's list of Best Diets for 2023, which was released Tues...

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