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Mediterranean Lifestyle For Dummies
About This Book
Achieve optimal health and live longer with timeless advice from Mediterranean culture
The Mediterranean lifestyle offers achievable and enjoyable opportunities for a longer, healthier, and happier life. By incorporating simple and fun habits into your daily life, you can enjoy these lasting benefits. In Mediterranean Lifestyle For Dummies, best-selling author, Mediterranean lifestyle ambassador, chef, and culinary expert Amy Riolo walks you through the basic lifestyle practices that have stood the test of time and will transform the way you eat, socialize, and experience life.
You'll find practical ways to enjoy increased energy, better sleep, an improved attitude, and a revitalized social life. You'll learn to make a healthy, produce-based diet the centerpiece of a new approach to living that includes engaging with nature, making mealtimes sacred, and laughing at life every day.
More than 30 delicious, simple, and authentic Mediterranean recipes from various countries in the region, this book shows you how to:
- Benefit from ancient wisdom which has enabled people to survive and thrive well into their 90s for millennia
- Adopt a food-friendly approach that makes cooking for yourself, friends, and family an opportunity for fun and memorable experiences
- Organize your pantry and kitchen around Mediterranean principles so making simple, healthy foods becomes second nature
- Make time for yourself, your family, and your friends by reconnecting with the outdoors, siestas, and communal meals
The transformational opportunity found in this lifestyle guide is about more than improving your diet and losing a few pounds. It's about showing you how to find a happier and healthier you without resorting to fads, tricks, shortcuts, or diets that only last a few days. By revealing the often-overlooked cultural traditions and lifestyle components that have earned the Mediterranean Diet top ranking among the world's diets, this book will help you to achieve lasting and meaningful results, anytime and anywhere. Mediterranean Lifestyle For Dummies is for anyone who wants more flavor in their food, more wine in their glass, more friends at their table, and more life in their life.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part 1 Getting Started with the Mediterranean Lifestyle
- Part 2 Making the Mediterranean Lifestyle Work for You
- Part 3 Adopting Healthful Cultural Attitudes
- Part 4 Preparing and Eating Food with Pleasure
- Part 5 Authentic Mediterranean Recipes for All Occasions
- Part 6 The Part of Tens
- Appendix A Metric Conversion Guide
- Index
- Supplemental Images
- EULA