Mediterranean Diet – Necessity… Solution… Choice… Opportunity

Most of us continue experiencing times and situations that are unprecedented, to say the least. The financial crisis leads us to re-evaluate our daily habits, and to scrutinize expenses that we took for granted until very recently. Does this bring us closer to a way of living gradually forgotten by modern habits? We had surely diverged from our predecessors way of life, but life, it seems, has ways of re-establishing equilibrium that are at least unexpected…

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Home made Bread

Very few moments can compare to the personal satisfaction one feels, when the smell of fresh, warm home-made bread feels the air. As you cut it and its warm comforting smell fills the air, your mind surely goes back to times when things were much simpler.

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Basic nurition principles (3) – Fats

What is the role of fats in nutrition? Surely, a much discussed issue that can be confusing. Saturated, poly-unsaturated, Ω3, Ω6, trans, lots of kinds of fats, many scientific names , a lot of information, opinions, but one thing is certain. Fats are very fatening! They are however inevitable in our diet and sometimes even necessary. That’s why we have to understand their properties, in order to make the right choices in our daily life.

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Basic nutrition principles (2) – Proteins

Proteins are the main structural substance in muscles, and the second in abundance ingredient in our body, after water. We use, or even abuse our muscles every day, as we go about our daily tasks. It is therefore very important to give our body the chance to replenish and repair our muscles, or even to build new ones of necessary. This can only be done through our food.

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