The diet is rich in olive oil, nuts and oily fish
We all want to be as healthy as possible as we get older. But to do that we need to take action on our exercise and our diet.
Now, he's insisted that by incorporating other parts of the Mediterranean lifestyle into your day-to-day life, you could be "protecting your heart" in the long run. In his column for the Daily Mail, Dr Mosley said that large trials have shown the Mediterranean diet - which also involves lots of fruit and veg - "can cut your risk of heart disease, stroke and developing type 2 diabetes by almost half".
In fact, the lifestyle has been studied so much that scientists in Spain developed the Mediterranean Lifestyle Index that not only tracks diet but also activity levels and how often a person socialises with friends. Dr Mosley explained that the MEDLIFE system awards people "points" for consuming foods that fit into the parameters of the Mediterranean diet, as well as for socialising for at least a couple of hours at the weekend and spending less than one hour a day watching TV.
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