

Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean diet ingredient may extend life
Olive oil in the diet may also help mitigate aging-related diseases.
merely consuming olive oil is not enough to elicit all of the health benefits. His team's studies suggest that when coupled with fasting, limiting caloric intake and exercising, the effects of consuming olive oil will be most pronounced.

Major Cardiovascular Effects of TCM Ingredients and Potential Mechanisms
Hao P, Jiang F, Cheng J, Ma L, Zhang Y, Zhao Y. Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease: Evidence and Potential Mechanisms. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2017 Jun 20;69(24):2952-2966. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.04.041. PMID: 28619197.


A healthy diet pattern for Chinese - The Jiangnan diet
Geographically, the Qinling Mountain—Huai River line divides China into two parts, Northern and Southern. Surprisingly, the line also divides the high prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome in Northern China from the low prevalence of Southern China. In past decades, the diet-center hypothesis has gained much support from the apparent cardiometabolic diseaseprotection effect of the Mediterranean diet. Questions include the following: Does the diet pattern explain the disease prevalence difference between two parts with similar genetic background? What kind of diet pattern is suitable for future national diet recommendation for Chinese, as the Mediterranean diet does for the Western countries? Here, we review the main healthy diet components, which the native inhabitants in the Yangtze River Delta region have eaten for several hundreds of years, and refer to this healthy diet as “Southern River (江南)-style dietary pattern” or “Jiangnan Diet.”

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The Mediterranean Diet and Cardiovascular Health - A Critical Review
Originally published28 Feb 2019https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313348Circulation Research. 2019;124:779–798

Cohort Profile: Design and methods of the PREDIMED study
International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 377–385, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyq250
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