"Eating Right"
Summary

You may be wondering right now whether modifying your lifestyle is worth the effort, if you have not been "eating right" till now. Reference 6 answers this question with a resounding "yes" - it certainly is worth modifying your diet and lifestyle! They find that a midlife switch to a 1) diet of at least 5 daily fruits and vegetables, 2) exercise, 3) maintaining a healthy weight, and 4) not smoking, results in a substantial reduction in mortality and cardiovascular disease over the next four years. The improvement is evident even in comparison to people who only adopt three of the four lifestyle changes. The reduction in risk is 0.65 (35%) for cardiovascular disease (Margin of Error between 0.52 and 0.81) and 0.60 (40%) for overall mortality (Margin of Error between 0.39 and 0.92).

Summarizing, you can improve your odds of being healthy and living long by modifying your diet, exercising, keeping your weight down, and not smoking. Any time is a great time to begin, and the sooner, the better!

As an example, click here to see what food we usually have in our grocery cart at checkout. However, you can find many great recipes in numerous books that have been published on the Mediterranean Diet, as well as on the web!

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