There’s no one uniform Mediterranean lifestyle or eating pattern because its followers don’t all live in the same place.
There’s no one uniform Mediterranean lifestyle or eating pattern because its followers don’t all live in the same place. That complicates the effort to assess the potential health benefits of the diet. “Did you live in Italy? Did you live in Greece? Did you live in Spain? So then, when you do research studies, the diet might be a little different in each,” says Jo Ann Carson, PhD, a former professor of clinical nutrition at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and a former chair of the nutrition committee for the American Heart Association.