What are good mediterranean diet foods?

What are good mediterranean diet foods?What are good mediterranean diet foods?
It depends on what you mean by diet. By definition, a "diet" is anything that an animal eats. If you mean low fat (as most Americans con-notate it) you can probably tell by cooking it. Find any Mediterranean recipe and read through the ingredients and cooking instructions. If it calls for anything fatty (meats, lard, eggs, butter/margarine/shortening, or excessive sugar and oils), then you should try to make as many adjustments as you can. Most people don't realize just how bad meat is for them and they go their whole lives insisting that they "need the protein". Truth is, ALL living things contain protein, but only animals contain cholesterol. Eating a *balanced* vegetarian diet will supply all the nutrients you need without all the disgusting fat and cholesterol. Many vegetarians and vegans eat a lot of Mediterranean foods because there are plenty of interesting meat-less options. For the record, vegan/vegetarian is a type of diet. Fat-free, sugar-free, low-fat, etc. are *weight-loss programs*. One is the way you eat, the other is what you're depriving yourself of to loose fat.