In his famous Seven Countries Studies in 1958-1964, an American Scientist Ancel Keys observed a lower percentage of people having a Coronary Heart Disease(CHD) in the Southern Italy (Overview:The Seven Countries Study in Brief, 2013). Hence, the term Mediterranean Diet was coined to refer to the characteristic of foods eaten by the people of the Mediterranean region in the 1950’s.
The diet started to gain popularity in 1990s when Dr.Walter Willett of Harvard University’s School of Public Health introduced the “Mediterranean diet pyramid” as a “cultural model for healthy eating” (Willett et al, 1995).
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