Jesus' Diet
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- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:21:43 -0700 (PDT)
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Moderate Wine, Little Meat, Many Vegetables May Be Key
Mediterranean Diet Items Linked to Longer Life
Marlene Busko
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/705012
June 26, 2009 (Athens, Greece) — A population-based cohort study of
individuals in Greece has teased out items in the Mediterranean diet
that appear to contribute to the increased longevity associated with
this diet [1].
The largest effects on reduced mortality came from drinking moderate
amounts of alcohol, eating little meat, eating lots of vegetables,
eating fruits and nuts, and using olive oil. However, the individual
components of the Mediterranean diet had an additive protective
effect.
"Overall diet is more important than individual components, with
emphasis on moderate--but not excessive--wine consumption,
particularly during meals, preference for olive oil as the main added
lipid, low consumption of meat, and high consumption of vegetables,
fruits, and legumes," author Dr Dimitrios Trichopoulos (Harvard
School
of Public Health, Boston, MA) told heartwire .
The researchers examined data from healthy individuals in Greece who
participated in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer
and
Nutrition (EPIC) trial.
Although this study did not examine causes of death, previous studies
in this cohort showed that the Mediterranean diet has the greatest
effect on cardiac mortality, Trichopoulos said.
The study is published online June 24, 2009 in BMJ.
A Toast to Long Life
To investigate the relative importance of each of the components of
the Mediterranean diet on longevity, the researchers looked at data
from the Greek segment of EPIC, from over 23 000 healthy men and
women
aged 20 to 86 at enrollment.
The researchers calculated a Mediterranean diet score from a diet
questionnaire filled in by the participants at study entry.
The diet score was based on nine components of the Mediterranean
diet:
vegetables, legumes, fruit and nuts, dairy products, cereals, meat
and
meat products, fish and seafood, monounsaturated-to-saturated lipid
ratio, and ethanol consumption.
High consumption of a beneficial food, low consumption of a harmful
food (meat or dairy products), and moderate consumption of alcohol
were each assigned a value of 1; other levels of consumption were
assigned a value of 0, for a score of 0 to 9.
The researchers compared longevity for individuals with scores above
or below the median, where the median was about five servings of
vegetables and three to four servings of fruits and nuts a day, said
Trichopoulos. Moderate intake of alcohol was one to five small
glasses
of wine (10 g/day to less than 50 g/day) for men and half that for
women.
As is typical in the Greek population, many individuals were
overweight or obese and many men were smokers. Most were moderately
active.
After a mean follow-up of 8.5 years, more deaths occurred in the
participants with low vs high Mediterranean-diet scores.
The contribution of each of the diet components to lower mortality
were: moderate consumption of alcohol (23.5% of the effect), low
consumption of meat (16.6%), high consumption of vegetables (16.2%),
high consumption of fruits and nuts (11.2%), high monounsaturated-to-
saturated lipid ratio (10.6%), and high consumption of legumes
(9.7%).
Eating lots of cereal products and few dairy products contributed to
only 5% of the effect, and consumption of fish was associated with a
nonsignificant increase in mortality.
Trichopoulos was not surprised that the study found that moderate
consumption of alcohol--mostly wine drunk with meals--was such a
prominent contributor to longevity. Wine consumed in the Greek diet
is
comparable to wine consumption that is part of the "French paradox,"
he noted.
The researchers acknowledge that the long follow-up means that diets
could have changed over the study. In addition, the effects of each
food might be synergistic.
No Single Miracle Food
Commenting on the study for heartwire , Dr Teresa T Fung (Harvard
School of Public Health, Boston, MA), who was not involved with the
study, said that she was surprised that moderate consumption of
alcohol--which is known to reduce risk of cardiac disease--had such a
strong contribution to reduced risk of mortality.
Importantly, this work confirms that it is not one single component
of
the Mediterranean diet that is driving reduced risk of mortality, she
added. "In order to promote longevity, people have to do several
things at the same time. They just can't focus on one food--just eat
blueberries or take a folic-acid pill. It's a whole lifestyle, whole
diet approach for health promotion."
However, the study does not indicate whether each of the components
of
the Mediterranean diet linked to decreased risk of mortality are also
linked to reduced risk of incidence of the diseases that cause the
mortality, Fung added.
The authors disclosed having no conflict of interest. The study was
supported by the Europe Against Cancer Program of the European
Commission, the Greek Ministries of Health and Education, and a grant
to the Hellenic Health Foundation by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
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