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\"Showing This reel of this day (below, but I’ll paste the youtube channel link here, just in case<\/a>) hits on all the reasons the Mediterranean lifestyle is the healthiest on earth.<\/p>\n

We harvested olives throughout the day, pulling, bending, gathering — there’s your exercise.<\/p>\n

These olives will be pressed into olive oil that we’ll have through the year, plus brining buckets of them to have on … literally everything I eat, lol. There’s your nutrition.<\/p>\n

We picked and laughed and chatted and played with some amazing people, feeling positively energized even at the end this long day of harvest. There’s your stress reduction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Getting your activity, nutrition, and stress management just woven into the fabric of their day is why it’s sustainable, as well as being the healthiest approach on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This reel of this day (below, but I’ll paste the youtube channel link here, just in case) hits on all the reasons the Mediterranean lifestyle is the healthiest on earth. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[285],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mediterranean-diet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG20220521163845-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-2Wt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=98","url_meta":{"origin":11313,"position":0},"title":"Mediterranean Spread","author":"Will Clower","date":"June 17, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This appetizer is a great way to incorporate basil into your diet. 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