*  Most Americans picture the Mediterranean diet and see pasta. Maybe some olive oil drizzled over bread. If they’re generous, a Greek salad.

That’s the postcard version. The actual diet – the one that people in Crete or coastal Sicily actually ate for generations – was built on fish. Sardines. Anchovies. Sea bream. Whatever came in off the boats that morning, eaten the same day.

Not salmon. Not tuna steaks. Small, oily, unglamorous fish that cost almost nothing and kept whole families fed.

The omega-3s, the lean protein, the minerals – that’s where a lot of the health case was rooted. Not the pasta.

The Mediterranean diet works when you eat like a fisherman, not like a tourist. There’s a difference

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