The "Mediterranean Diet" is an over-hyped, overly promoted diet. I've been to a few countries on the Mediterranean Sea and nobody eats like that. They eat plenty of meat along with the fish (lamb, beef, pork, fowl) and a lot of starch (macaroni, bread, etc.)

Saying the people in the Blue Zones eat that fictional Med. Diet is false. How in hell do the people in Japan eat a Mediterranean diet?

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it (Joseph Goebbels)

Furthermore, if there was one diet that is best for everyone, there would only need to be one diet book.

(End of minor rant)

Bob