It’s popular because it’s a well-rounded approach to eating that isn’t restrictive.
Because no one designed the Mediterranean diet, but it is a style of eating in a region of people that evolved naturally over centuries, there’s no official way to follow the Mediterranean diet. It’s popular because it’s a well-rounded approach to eating that isn’t restrictive. Two of the five so-called blue zones — areas where people live longer and have lower rates of disease — are in Mediterranean cities (Ikaria in Greece and Sardinia in Italy).
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