A healthy shape & weight can easily be achieved and maintained with the Cretan Bowl Diet.

Post Cretan Bowl Diet

POST CRETAN BOWL DIET

... you can sit back and relax, order a pizza, crack open a six pack of beer and munch your way through a mountain of ice cream.

Only joking!

WEIGHT LOSS RESULTS

Simply add some further ingredients (in moderation) found in the Cretan Diet into your meals.

You can include some delicious Greek Yoghurt topped with honey to your breakfast fruits.

You can now include some starches such as bread, rice, pasta, cereal and potatoes into your lunch and dinner meals.

Or you could add some pulses such as beans, lentils etc.

CRETAN DIET

You can continue drinking herbal teas and in particular Greek Mountain Tea, Lemon Verbena, Dittany or a blend of these with the addition of a little natural honey.

So post Cretan Bowl Diet be sensible and add additions slowly. If you feel you are gaining weight or losing weight simply adjust the additions to suit you.

These are the basic rules for the Cretan Diet:

• Use olive oil as the principal fat, replacing all other fats and oils for frying and dressings
• Drink a moderate amount of wine, normally with an evening meal; about one to two glasses per day for men and one glass per day for women
• Eat plenty of fresh fruit as a typical daily dessert; limit sweets with a significant amount of sugar and saturated fat
• Include in your diet lots of food from plant sources, including fruits and vegetables, breads and grains, beans, nuts, and seeds
• Eat low to moderate amounts of cheese and yoghurt daily
• Consume low to moderate amounts of fish and poultry weekly; and limit eggs to a maximum of four per week
• Include red meat rarely perhaps just once per week

A major feature of the Cretan Diet is its simplicity. There are no fancy sauces or tricky soufflés. There’s no difficult combinations or strange exotic ingredients.

To learn more about the Cretan Diet and how it can help you live a longer and healthier life then we highly recommend Cretan Cooking brilliantly written and photographed by Nikos and Maria Psilakis. With 265 easy to follow recipes with wonderful colour photographs this recipe book is a must have for all lovers of Crete, the Cretan Diet and healthy food.

The miracles of the Cretan diet, the most wholesome cuisine of the Mediterranean are unfolded in this great little recipe book.

Cretan cooking has been described as the best and complete healthy diet in the world. Scientific studies confirm that people of the Island of Crete in Greece has the lowest mortality rate of Coronary diseases which is attributed to their diet. This book contains ingredients and recipes that will help you shed your weight and also improve your quality of life. Thousands of people all over the world are using this book as a guide to good and healthy cooking and living. International scientific researchers have proved that Cretan cooking offers people good health and long life. It is based more on the consumption of plenty of olive oil, vegetables, wild greens, pulses and cereals and less on the consumption of meat. Nevertheless, this does not mean that it is lacking in taste. Cretan dishes send forth fine flavours and tastes which can still be felt in the villages of the island. In this book you will find the main recipes which have been preserved on Crete for centuries, and which, together with the way of life, constitute what is called today "the miracle of the Cretan diet".

CRETAN DIET – CRETAN COOKING

"Eat like the Cretans and you will live longer... A precious book, an encyclopaedia on the traditional nutrition of the Cretans, which hides many secrets to good health, well being and longevity" - ETHNOS NEWSPAPER, Athens, Greece

"It is a marvellous and precious collection of traditional recipes which the authors have gathered with great zeal..." - TA NEA NEWSPAPER, Athens, Greece

"A wonderful collection of authentic traditional and contemporary Cretan recipes, rich in historical content" - Magazine SAVEUR, USA

£11.50

CRETAN BOWL DIET

If you want to know more about the wonderful Greek island of Crete, home of the Cretan Diet and the Cretan Bowl Diet then visit my sister site of Completely Crete .Com

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