There are some simple things you can do to eat more of the healthy foods that make up the Mediterranean diet.
But they point out that other studies have also linked the Mediterranean diet, or some of its components, to good health.
The pyramid they are introducing is based on the Mediterranean diet.
The traditional Mediterranean diet included zero to four eggs a week.
Included early in the book, however, are general guidelines for a Mediterranean diet.
The goal is to help to promote the Mediterranean diet.
Those who most closely followed a Mediterranean diet lived the longest.
The link between the Mediterranean diet and lower death rates held.
Those on the Mediterranean diet also lost more than double the weight.
Studies show that the Mediterranean diet is associated with longer, healthier lives.