Celebrating the BEST DIET for 2025 with 100 Free Recipes

Olive Sunshine is celebrating the best diet for 2025 with 100 Free Recipes. Yesterday, I published my 100th recipe based on the Mediterranean Diet. As a home chef and first-time hobby-blogger, I started Olive Sunshine to capture Mark (AKA my Sweetheart) and my journey on the Mediterranean Diet. After years of trend dieting, I knew after the first four days, the Mediterranean Diet is a way of life that we can embrace. It is an enjoyable way of cooking and eating and it is the BEST DIET for 2025!

Who Said the Mediterranean Diet is the Best Diet?

For the past 15 years, The U.S. News and World Report in partnership with the Harris Poll evaluates diets to determine the best diet. The Harris Poll, surveys medical doctors, registered dietitians, nutritional epidemiologists, chefs and weight loss researchers, to determine the best diet. Last week, the Mediterranean Diet has again been named the best overall diet. After tying for first in 2018, the Mediterranean Diet has been named the overall best diet since 2019!

Out of 21 Categories The Mediterranean Diet Ranks the “Best” in 13 Important Areas!

Also, the Mediterranean Diet is the second best for weight loss (behind Weight Watchers) and statistically tied with DASH for heart healthy. A healthy heart and being fit is super important to me as heart disease runs in my family. Prior to starting the Mediterranean Diet, I was on Weight Watchers. I knew I could not spend the rest of my life tracking points. For my Sweetheart and me, the Mediterranean Diet is an attainable and pleasurable way of eating and living. I love it so much that I launched my food blog, Olive Sunshine, and published 100 free recipes!

The Quick History of the Best Diet for 2025

In 1975, Dr. Ancel Keys, a biologist, and his wife, Margaret, a chemist studied the diet and made it popular. After conducting a Seven Countries study, Dr. Keys came to find that the people of Crete were less likely to die from high cholesterol and other related diseases. Despite having 40 percent of the calories come from fat, and drinking red wine daily, people are living longer. Excuse me, eating extra virgin olive oil and drinking red wine? Si, per favore! In 1993, Oldways along with Harvard School of Public Health and the World Health Organization formalized Dr. Keys’ study and now we have the Mediterranean Diet.

What is the Mediterranean Diet?

Oldways describes the Mediterranean Diet as a way of eating based on the traditional foods of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean Diet is not a diet, as in “go on a diet,” even though it is a great way to lose weight or improve your health. Rather, it is a lifestyle – including foods, activities, meals with friends and family, and wine in moderation with meals. The focus is on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, legumes, lean proteins from fish and poultry, and good fats from olive oil. Traditional cheeses, that are not overly processed, should be used sparingly. Sweets and red meats are limited to special occasions. A diet of abundance rather the deprivation, it is no surprise that the Mediterranean Diet is the Best Diet for 2025. It is enjoyable to eat food that is good and good for you!

Olive Sunshine Celebrates with 100 Free Recipes

I am excited that it has been five years since my Sweetheart and I started our journey on the Mediterranean Diet. It seems appropriate that we are Celebrating the BEST DIET for 2025 with 100 Free Mediterranean Diet Recipes! When I first launched Olive Sunshine, I did not know we would still be as enthusiastic about this way eating and of living. In fact, we embraced it so much that we now live in Sicily! We took the Mediterranean way of eating and living to heart. Thanks for reading Olive Sunshine and we hope these recipes can be a resource for you! Follow our journey on Facebook.

You can find ALL 100 FREE Mediterranean Diet Recipes

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