Clinical Nutritionist Stella Metsovas to Demonstrate Authentic Paleo-Mediterranean Cooking at Bloomingdales, South Coast PlazaOfficial Press Release PR WEB

Join top Nutritionist Stella Metsovas as she heats up the kitchen at Bloomingdales, South Coast Plaza. Metsovas will be demonstrating how one can please their palate and improve their health, with an authentic and delicious Paleo Diet Mediterranean meal.

Named “One of America’s Health Experts” by Woman’s Day magazine, Metsovas is regularly featured in top media outlets such as People, Shape, Glamour, AOL, New York Times and more. Through eight years of research in her private practice, Metsovas has created an entirely unique diet method – the Paleo Mediterranean diet. It is the first of its kind as it stems from the roots of human DNA and incorporates Mediterranean principles that are essential for health.

The Paleolithic diet consists of grass-fed meat, free-range fowl or wild-caught fish, seasonal fruits and vegetables, and generous portions of healthy fats – including nuts, seeds, avocados, olive oil and coconut oil. Grains, legumes, dairy products, sugar, vegetable oils and processed foods are absent from this diet. In essence, it’s what man ate millions of years ago before the dawn of agriculture.

The Paleo diet has been shown to have a host of heath benefits; including it’s proven success in patients with type 2 diabetes. During a 3-month study comparing a Paleolithic diet and a Diabetes diet, the Paleo diet better improved glycemic control and several cardiovascular risk factors in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Join Stella on January 14th at Bloomingdales, South Coast Plaza, as she demonstrates how to create her phenomenal low-carb Paleo Moussaka. It is sure to be an afternoon of culinary education and delightful surprises; attendees will also have the chance to win a free FDA Approved Metabolic Test.

About Stella Metsovas
Stella Metsovas is a clinical nutritionist, based in Los Angeles and Orange County California. An expert in Food Science and Human Nutrition, Stella has over 15 years of experience in the health and fitness industries.http://www.stellametsovas.com.

About Bloomingdales, South Coast Plaza
Bloomingdale’s is America’s only nationwide, full-line, upscale department store and a division of Macy’s, Inc. Bloomingdales South Coast Plaza is located at 3333 South Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. For more information visit http://www.bloomingdales.com or call 714.824.4600.

Nutr Clin Pract. 2010 Dec;25(6):594-602.  A quarter century has passed since the first publication of the evolutionary discordance hypothesis, according to which departures from the nutrition and activity patterns of our hunter-gatherer ancestors have contributed greatly and in specifically definable ways to the endemic chronic diseases of modern civilization. Refinements of the model have changed it in some respects, but anthropological evidence continues to indicate that ancestral human diets prevalent during our evolution were characterized by much lower levels of refined carbohydrates and sodium, much higher levels of fiber and protein, and comparable levels of fat (primarily unsaturated fat) and cholesterol. Physical activity levels were also much higher than current levels, resulting in higher energy throughput. We said at the outset that such evidence could only suggest testable hypotheses and that recommendations must ultimately rest on more conventional epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory studies. Such studies have multiplied and have supported many aspects of our model, to the extent that in some respects, official recommendations today have targets closer to those prevalent among hunter-gatherers than did comparable recommendations 25 years ago. Furthermore, doubts have been raised about the necessity for very low levels of protein, fat, and cholesterol intake common in official recommendations. Most impressively, randomized controlled trials have begun to confirm the value of hunter-gatherer diets in some high-risk groups, even as compared with routinely recommended diets. Much more research needs to be done, but the past quarter century has proven the interest and heuristic value, if not yet the ultimate validity, of the model.

OBJECTIVES:

To explore the possibility that a paleolithic-like diet can be used in the prevention of age-related degenerative Western disease.

METHODS:

Literature review of African Paleolithic foods in relation to recent evidence of healthy nutrition.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION:

Available evidence lends weak support in favor and little against the notion that lean meat, fish, vegetables, tubers, and fruit can be effective in the prevention and treatment of common Western diseases. There are no obvious risks with avoiding dairy products, margarine, oils, refined sugar, and cereal grains, which provide 70% or more of the dietary intake in northern European populations. If stroke, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer are preventable by dietary changes, an ancestral-like diet may provide an appropriate template.

“Rather, I’d suggest replacing one meal per day and remain paleo within that meal for a complete month,” she says. “The following month, try and replace another meal. Keep track of your health through a journal or online tracker such as LiveStrong’s MyPlate.”

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/511037-back-to-basics-the-primal-diet/#ixzz1iQE88qIr