Short Term Intermittent Fasting and Mediterranean Diet

Inclusion Criteria: 1. \- The participants in this study will be 50 men and women in the 30 to 65 year age range, who have a BMI in the high-normal to moderately overweight range (i.e. 22 to 28 kg/m2), 2. \- Participants who are eating usual US diets and are sedentary to moderately active (i.e. not exercise trained). 3. \- Participants have at least one of these metabolic abnormalities: pre-hypertension or hypertension (i.e. systolic blood pressure \> 120 mmHg or diastolic blood pressure \> 80 mmHg or specific treatment of previously diagnosed hypertension)10, sub-optimal lipid levels (i.e. LDL-cholesterol \> 100 mg/dl or HDL-cholesterol \< 59 mg/dl or specific treatment for this lipid abnormality)11, impaired fasting glucose or glucose intolerance (i.e. fasting glucose \> 100 mg/dl or 2 hr-glucose during OGTT with a glucose load of 75 g \> 140 mg/dl or specific treatment for previously diagnosed type 2 diabetes)12, or high-risk waist circumference (≥ 94 cm in men and ≥ 80 cm in women)13. Exclusion Criteria: \- 1 - History of any chronic disease process that could interfere with interpretation of results 2 - Smoking, pregnancy, alcoholism, psychiatric problems, life situations that would interfere with study participation and compliance. 3 - Currently eating diet similar to Mediterranean diet based on dietary and food frequency questionnaires and 4-day food diary.