Remember when it turned out that the Mediterranean diet was a bunch of horseshit because of the Americanization of European diets over the last 30 years and the biggest difference between the US and Greece was that Greece doesn’t have a massively dysfunctional health program for its citizens
Nah, mediterranean diet has a few silly aspects (insisting on whole wheat breads), but it’s absolutely one of the best for overall health (heart, liver, etc.) purposes. It can be difficult to stick to though, so I can see some cope emerging around that, and there is absolutely a ton of truth to the fact that American diets for kids are ABYSMAL compared to European ones a few decades back. The original mediterranean diet was proposed in the 60s after observing mid century diets of primarily Crete but a little Italy and Greek though, so your 30 year figure for “European” benchmark diets is not really relevant.
insisting on whole wheat breads
Could you elaborate on this? Is whole wheat bread not really beneficial compared to other kinds of bread?
Not to the degree they push it, and it’s often just better to omit breads and pastas when possible rather than just eat them whole grain. There was some bro science about whole grain being bad a few years ago but I think it was shown to be woo nonsense. Fact is, it’s often just better to keep bread as a sometimes thing, and pretending that whole grain breads redeem it entirely is just bad diet guidance.
