Although the Mediterranean diet is a diet ancient, the benefits have been known for relatively few years and to date continue to discover more of the virtues that contains this type of food.

The Mediterranean diet is considered one of the healthiest food exists in conventional. His usual dishes with a range of benefits for long-term health and is a great option to prevent different diseases.

Among the many benefits of the Mediterranean diet include:

• Preventing obesity and diabetes mellitus, diseases of developed societies in which power industry requires too high in saturated fat and a sedentary lifestyle.

• The Mediterranean diet delays and even prevents the passage of pre-diabetes to diabetes. So experts say as ell as Dr. Pi-Sunyer, director of the Center for Obesity Research and leader of New York Unit of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition St. Luke’s-Roosevelt.

• The Mediterranean diet has cardioprotective properties, mainly due to the consumption of virgin olive oil, which is healthy source of unsaturated fatty acids and micronutrients such as antioxidants.

• The Mediterranean diet has protective effects against neurodegenerative diseases.

• Combined with regular physical activity, the Mediterranean diet combat overweight and obesity.

• It has been shown that the Mediterranean diet reduced by 50 percent the risk of lung conditions. It is especially effective in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, known as COPD.

• Studies on the so-called Mediterranean diet have been shown to reduce by 50 percent the risk of lung conditions. Specifically, this type of diet is particularly effective in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, known as COPD, in general, and significantly in COPD specific variants such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

• The Mediterranean diet in short, increases life expectancy by reducing deaths and the incidence of heart disease and some types of cancer.

• The Mediterranean diet helps prevent depression: the B vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids present in the Mediterranean diet, exert a protective role against neurological disorders.