Healthy Eating For Greeks: It's all a myth

Healthy Eating for Greeks: It's all a Myth

Blog Post #4

April 20, 2014

Mark Curran

The word healthy is not one I would use to describe the traditional Greek diet.  That is why when you go to Greece you notice that most of the men are packing some serious beer belly's.  Greek food in general is not necessarily unhealthy, it is the quantity in which they eat it that is unhealthy.   With this being said there are still some foods that are very unhealthy.  One of the fattiest of the Greek food is patstitsio.  A recipe for patstitsio can be found here:http://greek.food.com/recipe/greek-pastitsio-100793 Greek Diets and American diets are both similar and different.  Americans consume a lot more meat than the Greeks, but the Greeks consume food more often then the three american meals per day.  Greeks tend to have five smaller meals, rather than three big ones.  This is a good idea if executed properly, but most some Greeks tend to overeat, and end up eating 5 big meals.  The similarities between Greek and American food begin and end with the word fried.  Greeks fry almost anything from a pita, to spinach, to squid.  Fried zucchini is personally one of my favorite Greek dishes (it is also one of the least healthy.)  A recipe for Fried Zucchini can be found here:http://greek.food.com/recipe/kolokythakia-tiganita-greek-battered-fried-zucchini-courgett-307589 The Greeks rarely update there food traditions because its been so good for so long, and they don't feel the need to.