Mediterranean diet extinct

NY Times reports:

“It is almost a perfect diet, but when we looked at what people were eating we noticed that much of the highly praised diet didn’t exist any more,” said the report’s author, Josef Schmidhuber, a senior economist at the food organization. “It has become just a notion.”

The article suggests the Mediterranean diet may have gone extinct within the past few years -- the very period when international scientists have increasingly extolled the health benefits of the diet which consists largely of fish, olive oil, goat's cheese, tomatoes and other fresh vegetables.