The Mediterranean Diet - Perfect Body Proportion?

Most of us are aware that people who live around the Mediterranean Sea are very healthy due to their ancient diets rich with olive oil, fish and vegetables. This was exactly the lifestyle that the Mediterranean diet advices although our dreams of turning into Greek Gods may not come true.

On this low-glycemic index diet, the average consumer eats a variety of beans, nuts, peas, lentils and pasta. Many people found that this diet is superior to most of the others in controlling blood sugar as well as the risk factors for heart disease.

The advantage of this diet is that the low-glycemic foods used in the diet is digested an absorbed in the small intestine and converted to blood sugar slowly when compared to high-glycemic foods. Studies also suggested that Hemoglobin A1c levels which is an indicator of long term diabetes health, decreased on this low-glycemic diets when compared to other diets. In combination with the reduction of blood sugar, the participants of the study also found that their HDL (or healthy cholesterol) increased as a result of the low-glycemic diet.