THERAPEUTIC POSSIBILITIES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET APPLICATION
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https://doi.org/10.32782/eddiscourses/2025-1-19Keywords:
Mediterranean diet, metabolic syndrome, obesityAbstract
Relevance. The Mediterranean diet is a way of eating that has been followed by countries around the Mediterranean Sea, such as Italy, Spain, Greece, France, and Morocco for thousands of years. The components of the Mediterranean diet include not only food preferences, but also some non-dietary lifestyle features, as well as historical traditions, knowledge, skills and practices that have been passed down from generation to generation. The concept of the Mediterranean diet was first introduced in a study of seven countries conducted by Case et al. in the 1950s. This study was conducted mainly among the poor rural population of Crete (Greece) and southern Italy and laid the foundation for the hypothesis that diet and lifestyle can have a protective effect on health.Purpose: to determine the therapeutic possibilities of the Mediterranean diet based on the analysis of modern scientific literatureMaterials and methods. A search and review of leading scientific publications on the impact of the Mediterranean diet on health and its possible therapeutic properties was conducted in the free biomedical research search engine PubMed, as well as in the open access search engine Google Scholar. The information search resulted in the selection of scientific publications that became the basis for a professional review of sources on the therapeutic potential of the Mediterranean diet.Results and conclusions. The Mediterranean diet is good for health because it has a good balance of healthy fats, lots of fresh foods and few highly processed foods, and it contains a lot of fiber, which makes the diet satisfying but does not contain excess calories. Following the Mediterranean diet is recommended for people with metabolic syndrome, overweight, heart disease, metabolic disorders, type 2 diabetes, and hypertension. This style of eating has anti-inflammatory properties, prevents cancer and improves mental longevity.
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