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What’s for dinner? Is it healthy? Is it easy? If you ask these questions, EatingWell is for you. The magazine "Where Good Taste Meets Good Health"; EatingWell delivers the information and inspiration you need to make healthy eating a way of life with great, easy recipes (most take 45 minutes or less), the latest nutrition science, gorgeous photos and crisp, evocative prose.

Mediterranean Diet • A Delicious Path to Lifelong Health

A Timeless (and Timely) Way to Eat • Long-term studies have shown that people who adhere to the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle have a lower risk of developing diseases like diabetes, tend to live longer and age with grace. Here’s what eating and living like a Mediterranean means and how you can adopt these principles no matter where you live.

Better Your Health • Research suggests that the benefits of following a Mediterranean-style eating pattern may be many: improved weight loss, better control of blood glucose (sugar) levels and reduced risk of depression, to name a few.

The Heart of It • The Mediterranean diet is focused on food and lifestyle choices that have significant coronary benefits, including helping prevent heart disease and keeping cholesterol levels in check.

All About Olive Oil • Here we dish on everything about this Mediterranean-diet staple, from its health benefits to how to store it, plus our secrets on which olive oil is best and how to use it.

Take a Bite Out of the Blues • As if reducing your risk of heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes weren’t enough, the Mediterranean diet also works wonders on your mood.

Eat for Brain Health • What you eat and what you don’t may have a huge impact on your mind. Scientists are discovering that the MIND diet, which is rooted in Mediterranean principles, can help you stay as sharp as a tack.

Stave Off Inflammation • Fans of anti-inflammatory diets say these regimens can transform you inside and out. But this Hollywood health “fad” is rooted in the same key principles that make the Mediterranean diet so healthy.

A Simple and Customizable Way to Manage Weight • One of the best things about the Mediterranean diet is how easy it is to adapt and stick to. That means that the eating plan is not only healthy, it’s also a reliable approach for tackling weight-related goals in a nutritious and sustainable way.

Exploring The Diet’s Roots • The Mediterranean diet offers a cuisine rich in colors, tastes and traditions. Here’s a look at some of the places in the Mediterranean from which the eating plan draws its lessons.

The Real Mediterranean Diet • The first detailed study of this storied heart-healthy diet goes all the way back to the 1940s on Crete—the largest of the Greek islands in the Mediterranean. Find out what the island’s inhabitants were doing so right. Their lessons might astonish you.

Cook Like They Do in Crete • These recipes are inspired by the local Greek dishes found in Crete. The meals embrace the healthy tenets of the Mediterranean diet.

My Big, Fat Greek Diet • In this humorous essay, an American shares her experience with the famed “healthy” Mediterranean diet: You will eat french-fry-stuffed gyros in Mykonos and doughnuts on the beach in Crete and go home with a little more (ahem) baggage than you arrived with. At least she did.

Coming Together at the Table • Cyprus is a land of contrasts: jaw-dropping beauty next to the rough reality of territorial disputes. But no matter whether Turkish or Greek, food traditions are a vital part of family, identity and pride.

Grown in Puglia • From fava, artichokes, eggplant and broccoli rabe to some of the best seafood in the country, the heel of the boot is Italy’s breadbasket. Here’s how it mastered the real Mediterranean diet.

Buon Appetito • If you’re...