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Healthy fats  The focus of the Mediterranean diet isn't on limiting total fat consumption, but rather to make wise choices about the types of fat you eat. The Mediterranean diet discourages saturated fats and hydrogenated oils (trans fats), both of which contribute to heart disease. The Mediterranean diet features olive oil as the primary source of fat. Olive oil provides … [Read more...] about NUTRITION AND HEALTHY EATING

Crete has a well known folk dance tradition, which comes from ancient Greece and includes swift dances like pentozalis and other like sousta, syrtos, trizali, katsabadianos, chaniotikos, siganos, pidichtos Lasithiou, maleviziotikos, tsiniaris, ierapetrikos and laziotikos. Pentozalis The Pentozali is a war dance, vigorous, with high jumping movements and allows for much … [Read more...] about CRETAN FOLKLORE DANCES

Cretans speak in Mantinades “A Cretan does not say in plain words what he feels, With mantinades he weeps or with laughter he peals!” Mantinades (plural of mantinada) are the most common form of folk song and are widespread across Crete. The Cretan mantinada is a 15-syllable rhyming couplet in Cretan dialect. Each mantinada is complete in itself in spite of its … [Read more...] about Mantinades in Crete