African Heritage Diets Have Similar Health Benefits To Mediterranean Diets, Says Study

African Heritage Diets Have Similar Health Benefits To Mediterranean Diets, Says Study

A new study has found that African heritage diets may promote many of the same health benefits as the Mediterranean diet, including the reduction of chronic inflammation. The study is the first to comprehensively map the health effects of traditional African diets. It found that swapping Western foods for indigenous ones had a positive impact in just two weeks. Conversely, adopting a Western diet had a measurably negative impact. As noted by the…