The Mediterranean Diet

History and description of the Mediteranean diet including information on its longevity attributes. The Mediterranean basin was the birthplace not just of much of our Western political and artistic culture, but of a great culinary culture as well. Unlike the animal-based diets of the northern Europe, the culinary traditions of the Mediterranean countries of Greece, southern Italy, Cyprus, Spain and Turkey are fundamentally plant-based. Even more significantly, in these lands, the olive and its oil served as the prime dietary source of fat and its flavor-enhancing power.
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