Why the Mediterranean Diet Has Not Worked for You? - Dr. Berg

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

I was asked for my opinion about the Mediterranean diet, which is billed as “heart-healthy”. It uses lots of fruits and vegetables, and tons of olive oil, along with whole grains, red wine, and moderate amounts of red meat, fish, poultry, and low-fat dairy.

In this podcast, I explain why the Mediterranean diet hasn’t worked for you.

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Dr. Berg, 51 years of age is a chiropractor who specializes in weight loss through nutritional & natural methods. His private practice is located in Alexandria, Virginia. His clients include senior officials in the U.S. government & the Justice Department, ambassadors, medical doctors, high-level executives of prominent corporations, scientists, engineers, professors, and other clients from all walks of life. He is the author of The 7 Principles of Fat Burning.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.
0:07.7	Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.
0:22.5	So I had another question posed on my opinion on the Mediterranean diet, the so-called
0:27.2	heart-healthy diet that so many doctors recommend. It's composed of fruits and vegetables and
0:35.5	tons of olive oil, whole grains, red wine, moderate red meat, moderate fish and poultry,
0:42.8	and low fat dairy. It sounds pretty healthy because people are doing this in Italy and
0:48.7	Greece and they're healthy, right? So I'm just going to talk about this one study involving
0:53.3	7,447 participants. I'll put a link down below so you can actually read the study yourself.
1:00.4	So this diet was composed of three separate groups. Those that consume the Mediterranean diet
1:06.5	in four tablespoons of olive oil, then there was a group that did the Mediterranean diet with
1:10.5	this small amount of mixed nuts. Then they compared it to number three, a traditional low-fat diet.
1:17.2	Okay. There were a couple flaws. It wasn't properly supervised. Actually, the study was retracted,
1:24.7	re-analyzed, and it was not entirely random. I put a link down below if you want to know more
1:30.2	the details, but here's the big point. There's no such thing as a standard Mediterranean diet.
1:37.7	Different countries in this region consume different diets, so there is no standard. In fact,
1:43.6	in America, we have the American version of this diet, which is pizza and wine and pasta.
1:51.8	All right. Number two, it was only statistically significant in men, not women. Number three,
1:59.0	it was only statistically significant for reducing strokes, not heart attacks or heart disease.
2:06.6	There was no difference in mortality, but decreased stroke risk by 30%. So that sounds pretty
2:13.6	impressive. I mean, decrease your risk of stroke by 30%. That's incredible. But realize the truth
2:20.3	is they're not reducing your risk by 30%. All they're doing is they're comparing the results of
2:26.7	these two groups. The amount of people that get strokes to the amount of people who get strokes
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