Could you send me the link to that post?

For a way of eating that has been around for a long, long time and has been proven anecdotally and scientifically to be effective, it doesn’t get much respect.

I think they need to hire a slick marketing company to “sexy-up” their image.

Maybe a young Sophia Loren pictured on the cover or something like that.

ooops, sorry.

Way too sarcastic for this early in the morning.

Thanks again for the comment

DR, the study you mention is really eye-opening. I believe they are the first researchers to show that the Mediterranean diet prevents some cases of type 2 diabetes in healthy people. Thanks for spreading the news.

The Spanish study referred to another one that suggested prevention of diabetes in heart attack patients who followed the Mediterranean diet. I blogged about that study recently:
http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/?p=54

-Steve

With that being said, there has been a lot of research showing how a Mediterranean style diet can prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes AND help reduce the symptoms of T2DM if you already have it.

Here are some abstracts from studies with people already suffering from T2DM
http://annals.highwire.org/cgi/content/summary/145/1/1
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/292/12/1440
http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/93/2/85

These are just 3 out of hundreds of studies out there. The jist of it is that fruits, veg, healthy oils (monounsaturated olive oil, oil from fatty fish) may or may not magically reverse T2DM. But, at the very least, they seem to allow your body time to reverse the damage that the standard western diet had inflicted upon it.

How about trying it out for a month?

Dump the processed foods. Eat a Med. style diet, and bump up your exercise with 60 min of walking every night.

You don’t have access to any fancy-schmancy blood tests, but you can monitor your body weight, take a few body measurements (Tape measure at your chest {landmark via nipples}, waist{landmark via belly button} and hips {no landmark – use the widest point}) and measure your blood pressure at one of those drug store blood pressure machines. – use the same machine for the before and after measurement – it may be off, but it should be off by the same amount, so at least we will be comparing apples to apples.

Be your own scientist.

What do you have to lose.

If you do this, I would love to hear the results. If you want to write about your experience, I would love to post it on my blog.

Contact me if you have any questions