Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet

Name: Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
Uploaded: 2024-10-29T16:00:21+00:00
Duration: 37 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: Dr. Charles Mok (speaker) gives a brief, non-controversial spoken overview of diet, noting popular approaches (carnivore, vegan, keto) but recommending…

29 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Dr. Charles Mok (speaker) gives a brief, non-controversial spoken overview of diet, noting popular approaches (carnivore, vegan, keto) but recommending the Mediterranean diet based on his clinical experience and medical literature. He characterizes the Mediterranean diet (typical of Italy and Greece) as associated with lower cardiovascular disease, greater longevity, and lower inflammation.

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So we're coming into fall, and I want to just talk to you about diet without being controversial. I know there's a carnivore diet and a vegan diet, which couldn't be further from opposites and keto diet. I'm telling you from my own experience treating patients, my understanding of the medical literature, what is kind of general recommendations. I'm not going to talk about, like, the carnivore diet, because it's really not been studied much. I'm not talking about veganism because it's not really adhered to by many people in this controversy as well. But we find that the diet associated with most health and wellness is a Mediterranean diet. Mediterranean diet describes a diet that's found in the Mediterranean, Italy and Greece, where we see low rates of cardiovascular disease, more longevity, low risk, low rates of inflammation.