The Green Mediterranean Diet

Imagine being able to improve the Mediterranean Diet with a few changes. Is the new “Green” Mediterranean Diet the ultimate hack? The Green Mediterranean Diet (Green-Med) has become the hottest version of the MED diet yet.

Advantages of the Green Mediterranean Diet

There are three advantages to Green-Med

Less Fatty Liver
Decreased risk of heart disease
Less Visceral Fat

Fatty Liver

Foie Grass is nothing more than fatty liver

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is the number one cause of liver failure in the United States. It surpassed alcoholic liver disease as the number one reason for liver transplants. But how do you get fatty liver?

Is fatty liver caused by sugar or fat or both?

Low-Carb enthusiasts blame fructose, or almost any sugar, as the cause of fatty liver disease. Although the latest boogyman is “seed oils.” On the other hand, vegans will blame saturated fats.

But sugars in mice are not the same as sugars in men.

Fatty liver appears to be a byproduct of obesity, excess calories, and genetics.

Reducing fatty liver

After weight loss surgery, people rapidly lose weight, including in their liver.

But people on the Green Mediterranean Diet lost more weight in their liver than those with the standard Mediterranean diet.

Visceral Fat

Belly fat is one of the hardest fats to get rid of. As people age, belly fat increases. So when women go through menopause, they increase belly fat. And lowering belly fat is best done through weight loss with a high-fiber diet and cardiovascular exercise. But Green-Med appears to lower it even more.

Cardiovascular Risk Factors

Although MED is known for reducing the risk of heart disease, Green-Med seems superior.

Implementing the green Mediterranean Diet

The difference between the green and standard Mediterranean diet

28 grams of walnuts a day – about one ounce
3-4 cups of green tea per day
100 grams per day of frozen Mankai
Reduction in red meat

Green Tea is Easy

There are more polyphenols in it than in black tea – so it’s easier to drink.

Adding walnuts is easy; they are also a great source of omega-3 fatty acids.

Decreasing red meat isn’t difficult.

Finding Mankai or duckweed – well, you can’t in the United States

No one has reproduced the data about the Green Mediterranean Diet – perhaps because they can’t find those frozen cubes of duckweed.

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Dr. Terry Simpson

About the Author

You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.