Choosing the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest choices you can make. Losing weight is not the only benefit of this style of eating; there are plenty of others. For example, the Mediterranean diet helps protect you against type 2 Diabetes, against Alzheimer's and other forms of mental decline, and even helps keep your muscles limber. Even better, it dishes out plenty of antioxidants to protect from certain cancers, and wards off heart disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. It's a lifestyle you can live on easily, forever, just like the people living around the Mediterranean have been doing for centuries. Best of all, studies have shown that it can possibly add years to your life.

The Mediterranean diet consists of eating healthy unprocessed food that includes fish, seafood, poultry, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fruits, and healthy fats and limits red meats and sugar.