I don’t survive on this diet, I thrive. I also include a small glass of red wine Monday to Friday because we can for health reasons.
Labne, tomato, cucumber, kimchi, sweet potato, mushroom, spinach, dolma, EVOO and out of shot Lebanese flat bread and a glass of red.
by mrchaddy
5 Comments
Electrical_Act6400
How do you cook the sweet potato?
Effective_Roof2026
Kimchi is awesome, wish more people knew about its nutritional properties. Your gut loves those SCFAs and the soluble fiber & resistant starches from the sweets make it even happier 🙂
>I also include a small glass of red wine Monday to Friday because we can for health reasons.
If you want to drink wine NBD but be aware there are no health benefits. Polyphenols/phytonutrients don’t come from the wine but the red grapes (much like EVOO with olives), the alcohol more than reverses any health benefits. Ideal alcohol consumption for health is zero, any amount is bad for hepatic cells.
The very high phytonutrient (plants) consumption with MD is what creates the health benefits. Studies that don’t adequately control for dietary changes find a false correlation, if you look at red wine consumption for those eating MD higher consumption worsens health outcomes particularly CVD. A drink weekly or less frequently probably has no measurable impact, a drink daily is sufficient to have a measurable negative impact.
Proper-Scallion-252
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but the Mediterranean diet has evolved with recent studies showing that there are really no health benefits from drinking alcohol, and most reputable sources note that it’s no longer seen as a ‘healthy’ aspect from a physical perspective.
That being said, enjoy everything you love in moderation, if you find a weekly glass of wine to be enjoyable and helps you to eat and live healthily in every other aspect then go ahead! Alcohol has been revised as an item that is not healthy in any quantity anymore, but purely from a physical perspective–and lets be honest, no one lives perfectly healthy, and we all need something to enjoy and indulge on and wine is one of mine!
thefruitsofzellman
This is one of the few pictures I’ve seen here where the animal component (assuming that’s dairy in the middle) is in the correct proportion. It’s not really Mediterranean if you have a slab of fish taking up half the plate!
LastLibrary9508
So good! Would love to see more of your meals!
Also I love the idea of a little thing of red wine — whether there’s no health benefits, there’s me benefits, and it’s better than me drinking a beer or two.
5 Comments
How do you cook the sweet potato?
Kimchi is awesome, wish more people knew about its nutritional properties. Your gut loves those SCFAs and the soluble fiber & resistant starches from the sweets make it even happier 🙂
>I also include a small glass of red wine Monday to Friday because we can for health reasons.
If you want to drink wine NBD but be aware there are no health benefits. Polyphenols/phytonutrients don’t come from the wine but the red grapes (much like EVOO with olives), the alcohol more than reverses any health benefits. Ideal alcohol consumption for health is zero, any amount is bad for hepatic cells.
The very high phytonutrient (plants) consumption with MD is what creates the health benefits. Studies that don’t adequately control for dietary changes find a false correlation, if you look at red wine consumption for those eating MD higher consumption worsens health outcomes particularly CVD. A drink weekly or less frequently probably has no measurable impact, a drink daily is sufficient to have a measurable negative impact.
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but the Mediterranean diet has evolved with recent studies showing that there are really no health benefits from drinking alcohol, and most reputable sources note that it’s no longer seen as a ‘healthy’ aspect from a physical perspective.
That being said, enjoy everything you love in moderation, if you find a weekly glass of wine to be enjoyable and helps you to eat and live healthily in every other aspect then go ahead! Alcohol has been revised as an item that is not healthy in any quantity anymore, but purely from a physical perspective–and lets be honest, no one lives perfectly healthy, and we all need something to enjoy and indulge on and wine is one of mine!
This is one of the few pictures I’ve seen here where the animal component (assuming that’s dairy in the middle) is in the correct proportion. It’s not really Mediterranean if you have a slab of fish taking up half the plate!
So good! Would love to see more of your meals!
Also I love the idea of a little thing of red wine — whether there’s no health benefits, there’s me benefits, and it’s better than me drinking a beer or two.