re: Good read on the so-called "Mediterranean Diet"

Since this thread started I have been reading up on this issue. I have been reading through Keys and other source work trying to wrap my head around it. From the looks of it, Keys went in trying to grab ~650 diet logs from Crete and Corfu. So ~325 on each island. This was his design of the Seven Countries Study that started the Mediterranean Diet. His actual results that he published - just 33 people from Crete alone (I forget the number off hand for Corfu). He took the data gathered on Crete from the ~300 individual's diet logs and threw it out to leave just 33, and I don't remember why.