It is a recommended dietary intervention to replace the typical Western diet!

Along with limiting salt intake, the main components are:

• Generally higher consumption of olive oil, legumes and fiber, fruits and vegetables
• Moderate to high consumption of fish

The benefits of following a Mediterranean Diet are that:

• It promotes the improvement of cardiometabolic risk markers (e.g., triglycerides, LDL-cholesterol), insulin resistance, life expectancy and quality
• It is applied to people with obesity or diabetes and cardiovascular diseases