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Excess sugar from sweets or drinks adds up to 13% of caloric intake on an average day for people who eat the western diet.

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A person on an eastern diet would consume almost three times the amount of plant-based foods as meat, poultry, or seafood. The eastern diet contains far less salt, sugar, empty calories, and starch than the western diet.

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The Industrial Revolution is to blame for the Western diet because they introduced these foods as staples, such as domestic meats and sugar, and now they've become normal to the diet.

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In the 1950s, people started to realize that people living in Mediterranean areas had better overall health and took a look at their diet to find that it was helping them stay healthier. So people decided to turn it into a diet and eat foods that you would find in Mediterranean areas.

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People on a Mediterranean Diet eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, seafood, nuts and legumes, and olive oil.

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The eastern diet contains far less salt, sugar, empty calories, and starch than the western diet. The disadvantage is that it is more expensive and may be more difficult to come by compared to the western diet. It is, however, significantly more effective at preventing chronic obesity, hypertension, and cancer.

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These are foods that in the past people could get by hunting and gathering. It doesn't include foods that became more common when small-scale farming began about 10,000 years ago.

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A modern paleo diet includes fruits, vegetables, lean meats, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds.

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One study found people who eat a Mediterranean diet were 30 percent less likely to experience a major cardiac event than those on a reduced-fat diet.

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The concept of the Paleolithic diet started in the 1970s, and its popularity soared after the publishing of the book The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat by Loren Cordain in 2002.

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People who have western diets eat lots of processed foods, red meat, high-fat dairy products, eggs, corn, and lots of sugary products in high amounts.

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During the first Persian Empire (ca. 550–330 BCE), the foundation was laid for modern Middle-Eastern food when rice, poultry and fruits were incorporated into the local diet. Figs, dates and nuts were brought by merchants to conquered lands, and spices were brought from the Orient.