Mediterranean cuisine - The recipe for a long and healthy life? | DW Documentary

No surprise. I've always found the Mediterranean diet to be very healthy, good to know it's mainly driven by the lack of processed meat and higher vegetables & fruits content. Anyone noticed the food is cooked in plastic at 40:15? That's also cancer-inducing no?

isnt all this info about saturated fats outdated? Red meat and fats from dairy ,egg yolk and avacadoes are correlated to better health and longevity

I think the tradition of the Med diet is slowly dieing off, it was geared around family, friendship, community. However; similar to other spaces as people leave traditional spaces or those spaces are changed and transformed into more consumer driven environments the way that many peoples lifestyles have changed away from the traditional Med diet is so obvious.

I love the Mediterranean diet and I REALLY appreciate 4:32 the lady saying TYPE 2 DIABETES. Type 1 and Type 2 are NOT the same. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease.

It’s not only the diet but the social interaction and warmth of people

Grilled meats are my favorite part of a Mediterranean diet.

Now I feel less bad about ordering pizza, thanks DW!

If my doctor give me Olive oil after each visit, I'll go as often as possible 😅

Excellent documentary on a very important subject 👏 Our health and longevity ❤

So basically, DW ignored all the controversy around Ancel Keys studies and endorsed the "fat from meat is bad" statement. The USA adopted a diet following Ancel Keys studies and look how healthy they are now. Also, any serious video about food should mention the big role of food industry in people's diet. There's a deep, dark and shameful lobby of this industry trying to force trash food into our mouths. Many people in the comments complaining about the price of healthy food. Why aren't we all taking the streets of our cities forcing our governments to reduce taxes and the prices of healthy products? Many soft drinks companies pay very few taxes while healthy food producers pay more. We need a food revolution right now, everywhere! Starting in 2027, Brazil will have a "zero tax" policy on essential food products like: rice, beans, meat, cassava flour, wheat flour, sugar, pasta, regular bread, milk, various types of cheese, coffee, fruits, vegetables, and eggs. This is expected to reduce the prices on these products and stimulate the consumption of healthy products.

13:15 The healthiest fats are fully saturated animal fats. Olive oil is okay but it is mono-unsaturated and under high heat or prolonged storage that unstable double bond can flip into the trans position. That's why olive oil should really only be used at room temp or under very low heat.

My parents are from the Canary Islands but migrated to Australia in 1973 when I was 2 years old. The Meditteranean diet is what I was brought up on, with a Canarian (rustic island) twist. My parents were raised on it, as were their parents and theirs etc.. However, nutrition wasn't as great in the past, as evidenced by the fact that my maternal grandmother was only 140cm tall, my mother only 150cm and I am 160cm. I have raised my children on it as well, in a country where butter is the foundation. Olive oil is the foundation of the Meditteranean diet, along with legumes second. My parents served cod (bacalao) as the fish but today I prefer Norwegian salmon. It's the only one that I like the taste of. I no longer eat cheese, but when I did, it was Spanish Manchego, made from sheep's milk. My mother used to tell me a Spanish story about a chickpea called "Garbancito" (little Garbanzo) everytime she served me a chickpea meal. Garbancito was always getting swallowed by a random cow and his mother would look for him, crying out "Garbancito, ¿donde estás? (Where are you?). Little me used to believe the story and that Garbancito was a real live chickpea who could actually walk and talk 😂. That's innocence for you. This is the best and easiest diet to follow. It is also affordable, compared to other modern diets, like paleo. I credit my good health and good skin to being raised on it.

All Mediterranean countries ate what their land gave them. It was not something that one of these countries "discovered" and the others followed. Depending on the climate and what spontaneously grew all those populations ate a very similar diet! Obviously Yet Crete is indeed the cradle of our culture!

I just love this documentary but sadly our people comfortable with processed food to save time for preparation and taste

Loved this.

Buy locally produced foods as much as possible. Residents of each area of the world have adapted to its food source. Those living in the Arctic regions have different sources than those living in Papua New Guinea. Stress factors play a big part. One's grandparents may have reached 100 while one's parents may have only lived to 50. Genetics too plays a major role. Many have relatives who smoked and drank themselves into their 80s, 90s all the while eating meat and starches. Just saying

One of the best documentries I have ever seen

I'm from Québec in Canada. Here life expectancy is just as high as in Mediterranean countries and a lot of people reach the late 90s and are still in super shape for their age. But here, the Mediterranean diet wasn't possible because of the climate that we have. People's diet was mostly composed of bread, root vegetables, potatoes, beans, beef (including dairy products) and a little fish. In summer there were however a higher variety of fruits and vegetables. I think what matters is to have a diverse diet and to avoid excess salt, excess sugar and excess saturated fats. You don't "need" to eat olive oil or wathever is part of the Mediterranean diet to be healthy, as long as what you eat contains all the nutrients required for our body to remain healthy.

It's not just about the food they eat, it's more about what u don't eat

To think that the answer has been there all along. Eat more nutritiously and your entire body will take care of the rest.