Apr 12, 2021
No, medical research has not “largely borne out" the merits of the so-called Mediterranean Diet.
Read Big Fat Surprise to discover that the Mediterranean Diet is a made-up marketing scheme that paid scientists to attend lavish Italian conferences shilling the health benefits of olive oil.
What gets overlooked in the diet studies that support Mediterranean eating habits is the importance of fasting. The Catholic and Orthodox dictums that prevail in Southern Europe require frequent periods of fasting that promote health.
Antifragile was the first book to point this out to me.
