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What happens when you grow up on the Mediterranean diet? She knows firsthand

What happens when you grow up on the Mediterranean diet? She knows firsthand
Naima Moustaid-Moussa (left) and her husband, Hanna Moussa, with food they cooked for international students at Texas Tech University. (Photo courtesy of Naima Moustaid-Moussa)
Naima Moustaid-Moussa (left) and her husband, Hanna Moussa, with food they cooked for international students at Texas Tech University. (Photo courtesy of Naima Moustaid-Moussa)

You can find health advice almost anywhere these days. But finding reliable information and figuring out how to apply it can be overwhelming.

So to help sort things out, American Heart Association News is launching “The Experts Say” as a new series where specialists tell us how they apply what they’ve learned to their own lives.

Today’s expert is Naima Moustaid-Moussa, Horn Distinguished Professor of Nutritional Sciences and director of the Obesity Research Institute at Texas

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Rujuta Diwekar Suggests 3 Simple Tricks To Include Healthy Fats In Your Diet

Rujuta Diwekar Suggests 3 Simple Tricks To Include Healthy Fats In Your Diet

In the recent past, we have seen a drastic shift in the way people diet. Rather than eliminating entire food groups from the diet, there is a switch towards eating a wholesome and healthy balanced diet. Ancient practices are being brought back, and people are trying out the wisdom passed on as per Indian traditions and our grandmothers. Fats are one food group that people have been constantly avoiding in a bid to lose weight. But of late, several nutritionists have spoken about how there are some healthy fats that could actually benefit the diet and speed up the weight

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Are Your Choosing Low-Fat, Fat-Free Or Diet Foods? Nutritionist Explains Why You Should Avoid These Labels

Are Your Choosing Low-Fat, Fat-Free Or Diet Foods? Nutritionist Explains Why You Should Avoid These Labels

UK diet clubs: how much do they cost and what do they offer? | Diets and dieting

UK diet clubs: how much do they cost and what do they offer? | Diets and dieting

Losing weight, eating more healthily and getting fitter will have featured in millions of people’s new year resolutions for 2023. There are lots of different weight-loss programmes out there but how do you know which one is right for you, and what do you get for your money? Guardian Money decided to take a close look at five of the main programmes.

Second Nature

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Second Nature can offer one-to-one advice. Photograph: Second Nature

How it works: by changing your mindset about losing weight and building healthy habits. “Our app uses behavioural science to retrain members’ minds to make healthy

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Mediterranean diet recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks

Mediterranean diet recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks

Tuesday night skillet chicken cutlets with artichokes and mushrooms. Med Dish 2022 Photography: Caitlin Bensel

We’ve heard it for a long time now: The Mediterranean diet is the way to go, at least according to U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of Best Diets that put the eating pattern at the top of the pile six years running.

The diet is characterized by eating primarily plant-based foods, including fruits and vegetables, while also fitting in beans, nuts, whole grains, seafood and lean poultry. There is a focus on unsaturated fat from sources like extra-virgin olive oil, too. 

And it’s a good option for anyone to try, according to dietitians.

But shifting how you eat can

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