Following up on yesterday’s comparison of the Mediterranean Diet and the South Beach Diet, here are some more resources that will get you on the path to better living.

You can find numerous recipe books at online bookseller Amazon.com, which make it easy to integrate the principles of the Mediterranean Diet into your routine. You can also find great meal ideas and food resources at Ayhan’s Mediterranean Marketplace, including the Ayhan’s 28 Day Mediterranean Diet book that was recently featured on ABC.

For more substantive reading, the prestigious British Medical Journal recently published a study showing the Mediterranean Diet leads to a significant improvement in health status, including reduction in overall mortality, reduced risk for heart disease and cancer, and encouraging signs against other diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. There has also been recent research into fast-food diet being linked to Alzheimer’s disease.