Mediterranean diet paradox reveals shifting nutrition trends

Despite decades of scientific evidence linking the Mediterranean diet to lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other chronic illnesses, the eating pattern is steadily disappearing in the very countries where it originated.

Nutritional choices among populations in countries such as Greece, Spain and southern Italy are moving away from their traditional dietary habits even as the Mediterranean diet gains popularity around the world, according to a new review by researcher Domenico Praticò, M.D., a professor in the Department of Neural Sciences at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. ...