[elwebmaster]

Not to pick on your comment but could you share which Mediterranean diet relies heavily on turkey? Chicken for sure, fish for sure (not lake-grown farm salmon full of antibiotics). How about roasted pig and roasted lamb? In all Mediterranean countries I have visited, that’s the food I have seen people enjoy. People have lived since millennia enjoying all the goods our Earth has to offer in moderation. The size of our planet has not changed. The population of most nations has not changed or has decreased. Then why the need to change our habits? Because the population of certain regions is growing out of control? That’s their problem to solve.

[strken]

The "Mediterranean diet" is its own thing and doesn't match the diet of actual Mediterranean countries in this century, and arguably wasn't even particularly close to the original 1960s populations that were studied. Other diets based on it, like ModiMed, move even further away from the original.

I agree that the name is silly and misleading, but that doesn't invalidate studies about its health benefits.