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The Mediterranean diet is a lie
5 Feb 2025
The Mediterranean diet is a lie:
Orthodoxy holds that the American duo discovered [in Italy] a fantastically nourishing, mostly plant-based regimen centered on moderation and communal eating, as well as a food pyramid much like the one we all saw as children … [but] The diet wasn’t discovered so much as invented — and Nicoterans’ leanness was due to a different ingredient: hunger.
And Italy sure isn’t doing so hot now. Check out the graphs.
Anthologies: Gratification, Somatic Architecture, On Culture, On Ethics