Oh, the glory of Mediterranean diets! Drown everything in Olive Oil and it becomes ten times better, we are assured.

Although you’ll hear plenty of people endorse high-oil Mediterranean-style diets as great ways to lose weight and avoid heart attacks, cancer, and other diseases, there’s really very little data supporting the health claims.

The fact is that today, people who follow these high-oil diets in the lands washed by the Mediterranean sea are getting fatter and sicker all the time. If they were once healthy, it is despite their olive oil consumption, not because of it.

To learn what’s going on here, and the real value of the olive oil raw foodists like to guzzle, check out this new article.

Also, Neil wants to know if chives and shallots are a good idea when you’re raw. I tell him here.

UPDATE: If you cannot watch the video below, this one should work.

Some people don’t like the look of a healthy raw food diet.

After a grumpy old man told me eating so much fruit wasn’t normal awhile back, I set off to document a new kind of eating: “the healthy eater’s normal”.

It involves a lot more colorful variety, sweetness, and volume than most people are used to, and it bring about a new level of health and vitality.

In the video below I show off a simple salad recipe with only three ingredients which is both delicious, filling, and very different than the average person’s meal.

Check it out.

(note: Due to annoying vagaries of musical copyright laws across international borders, people in some countries won’t be able to watch the video)

Following Up:

Learn how to eat a healthy raw food diet.

Don’t like sweet fruit salads? Go with amazing savory dressings and sauces instead.

I often rely on science to justify my positions on food at Raw-Food-Health.net, but at the end of the day, we really don’t need science.

Here’s the scoop: the bodies of healthy people react violently to unhealthy foods. What does that mean? It means the body is trying really hard to expel what you put in it, and does so with a number of techniques that we recognize as the symptoms of sickness.

But getting to that point isn’t an overnight jaunt. In this article I tell you how to adopt a raw food elimination diet so you can figure out what foods are healthy and harmful for yourself.