饮食中隐含的长寿秘诀

Among the legion of today's most popular diet regimens, the Mediterranean diet has become a poster child for healthy eating, garnering praise from nutrition experts and home gourmets alike.

在当下流行的养生食谱中，地中海饮食可以说独树一帜，从营养专家到普通食客都对它赞赏有加。

But while few would dispute the health benefits of such a diet, what is it about the Mediterranean menu that makes it so healthy?

几乎没人怀疑地中海饮食的健康功效，不过，这套饮食体系到底健康在哪里呢？

A study released Tuesday in the online edition of the British Medical Journal took aim at this very question. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and the University of Athens Medical School in Greece looked at more than 23,000 Greek men and women participating in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Over the course of about eight and a half years, the researchers led by Harvard's Dimitrios Trichopoulos and the University of Athens' Antonia Trichopoulou compared the health of the participants against their adherence to a Mediterranean diet.

本周二，英国医学杂志网络版公布了对于此问题的研究结果。来自波士顿哈佛医学院以及来自希腊雅典医学院的研究者，通过对参与欧洲癌症和营养学前瞻性队列研究的2万3千多名希腊人进行了为期8年多的观察。由哈佛学者Dimitrios Trichopoulos和雅典学者Antonia Trichopoulou领导的研究者们，将这些人的健康状况和他们对地中海饮食的遵守程度进行了比较。