A What I Ate Monday?

I'm just going to come out and say it. Reading a lot of blogs I've found people claiming this diet to be healthy or this food to be healthy. Yet, when you do a quick pubmed (NOT GOOGLE) search there's absolutely no literature about it. Honestly, why are you claiming something to be healthy when there's no research done on it??? Now there is research done on the vegetarian and vegan diets that show positive results. There's pretty much nil with regards to the paleolithic diet and the studies that do exist ask questions like "Are diets from paleolithic times relevant today?" If you follow it and it makes feel good, then whatever do your thing. However, don't go around bashing vegans or trying to convert other people because there's no concrete proof that says that it's healthy or will prevent chronic diseases. Hello, most cavemen didn't live past their 30-40s so NO SHIT they had no chronic diseases. I will not start on the raw vegan diet...

Now I'm not trying to convert anyone, I've just had previous requests to write about this. The thing is I've never actually "went on" this diet. It's more like once I started reading more about diets for a naturopathy course I took last year and I realized that I was already kind of following it. Maybe it's because I grew up in South Europe by the Black Sea... Anyways, the Mediterranean diet is highly researched. So if you're curious watch the video bellow and I've provided a link to a few studies that were published in the last few months. Just last few months! One of them in from New England Journal of Medicine. Big Reputable Journal. When I searched "Mediterranean Diet" in PubMed there were over 2000 articles that came up!!!

Raw, Vegan, Paleo... So lost!

My confusion continued on in terms of what constitutes a "healthy diet" ever since watching this video:

I'm sure many of you have heard of the famous Matt Monarch, the raw foodist. Well he made a video that talks about why eating 100% raw might not be the healthiest diet. Really? Of course this video had many video replies to this that said the opposite. To me a raw vegan diet sounds way to extreme and difficult to adhere to. As Matt says, you will lose your present social life. There is very little research done on raw veganism, so is it really worth it when you'd have to lose touch with a lot of your friends/ some family.

My soulmate diet + Moving back home

Bonjour tous :D

I'm feeling so frenchy now because I bought a beret! LoL! I was actually craving one for the last couple of years and now I got one :D Aah! In a month I'll be strolling the streets of Paris wearing it...

Now back to present tense... In my naturopathy class we actually had to treat a life patient with type II diabetes and had to develop a diet plan for her. My group found evidence that vegetarian and especially vegan diets are beneficial in managing type II diabetes and I'm talking systematic reviews of randomized control trials, not a simple google search. However, we felt it too harsh to put our patient on a vegan diet because she absolutely looovveeeddd her fish and greek yogurt. So... one of the girls in my group suggested we prescribe her the Mediterranean diet. After studying more about it, I was like wow! This pretty much summarizes my personal diet. The only thing that the pyramid below is missing is a chocolate category but that's a different story :P

Source : http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-health-news/mediterranean-diet-pyramid-gets-a-makeover/21089