“I got my belt in a notch and my blood sugar and blood pressure – which had been creeping up – I brought them back down.”

He explains it’s a method that works because the Mediterranean diet tackles hunger cues for unhealthy food.

“People tend to eat the wrong foods because it feels good to do so,” he said.

“When you bite down into a muffin or dive into a packet of crisps, you are responding to carefully-designed cues, put in place by food manufacturers, to use food as a defence not just against hunger, but against stress.

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Source: Daily Express | Diet