Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Green-Mediterranean (including green tea and the aquatic plant Mankai) diet may slow brain aging. Really!

It seems the elite Harvard university is confused about what is the Mediterranean Diet! Or worse, the elite university is involved in dubious appropriating a famous diet by mixing things up!

The traditional Mediterranean Diet of Spain, France, Italy, and Greece does not include green tea or Mankai (Google search result confirmation).

Nice, and very deceptive try to exploit the benefits of the traditional Mediterranean Diet to add some green to it. These benefits of this traditional diet have been advertised and reported about for over 50 years.

"... Over the course of 18 months, the participants consumed one of three diets:
a standard healthy diet;
a traditional calorie-restricted Mediterranean diet, which was low in simple carbohydrates, rich in vegetables, and replaced red meat with poultry and fish; and
the green-Mediterranean diet, which additionally included green tea and Mankai. ...
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Green-Mediterranean diet may slow brain aging | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

I wonder how many Italians, Spaniards, or Greeks drink e.g.


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