Rejuvenate Body and Mind – Deliciously!
Of all Mediterranean locations, the east of Crete really is "the land of good living".
Here grows naturally the basics of great flavours and the classic Mediterranean healthy diet, including premium quality olive oil and where "organic" is the normal.
Cretans were a key group, chosen because of their traditional way of life and nutrition, in the famous Seven Countries Study (USA, Netherlands, Japan, Finland, Italy, Balkans, Greece) of 13,000 people in their 40's, over a 15 year period that proved:
(In each chart the bottom axis shows the number of people who died from the specified incidents over the 15 year study.)
1. Cretan lifestyle gives the lowest incidence of coronary disease
2. Cretan lifestyle gives the lowest incidence of cancer:
3. Cretans live the longest overall
The good food pyramid
Cretan eating habits, particularly the high consumption of cereals, olive oil, fruits and vegetables, combined with relatively low intake of meat, are key to the general good health record.
An inverted pyriamid is ideal to represent traditional Cretan food intake; the bottom represents the least intake and frequency for good health and the broad top represents the most frequent and highest volume of intake of the items listed
