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If you are looking to benefit from more than just the fantastic climate and clean air in Andalucia, the ‘Mediterranean diet’ might be just what the doctor ordered. It combines the basics of healthy eating with the delicious flavours of the locally sourced foodstuffs. Although there are a variety of Mediterranean diets, with each one being specific to a particular country or region in the area, the Andalucian diet has all the healthy characteristics found in the common Mediterranean dietary plan. These are:

• Eating a generous amount of fruits, vegetables, bread, cereals, beans, nuts and seeds;
• Consuming healthy fats such as olive oil;
• Drinking red wine, in moderation;
• Consuming low amounts of dairy products and little red meat; and
• Eating fish on a regular basis.

The diet is low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat and dietary fibre. (Monounsaturated fat doesn’t raise blood cholesterol levels the way that saturated fat does and is considered a ‘healthy’ fat.)

To be continued…