Ancel Adams, scientist and inventor of WW2 K-Rations, was telling Americans exactly this way back in 1947. Elizabeth David told Brits and the ANZACs as early as 1946. What they told us then and what we all know now, except for the Big Food Barons, is that a Mediterranean diet is not just delicious and nutritious, but people who eat this way live longer and healthier lives, without succumbing to heart disease and strokes, and with greatly diminished risks of diabetes, dementia and cancers.