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A glug of olive oil, a load of veg and a slab of tuna or pecorino. That’s the Mediterranean diet that we all know and love… but it may not be the one that all the health benefits were actually linked to 50 years ago.
If there’s one thing most nutritionists and health experts agree on, it’s that many of us could benefit from eating in a more Mediterranean-style way. High in unsaturated fats, plants, grains and omega-3, we think of it as being grilled fish, bowls of rice, big bowls of salads. If you follow it to its Italian conclusion, perhaps it also means slices of margherita and creamy carbonara. After all, that’s what people eat in southern Italy, right?
Well, there’s evidence to suggest that we’re getting the Med diet slightly wrong, and it’s partly to do with the fact that many of us have far richer lives than those on whom the original studies into the nutritional health benefits were done.
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