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Panagiotakos, et al., have investigated the association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and fasting indices of glucose homoeostasis in a Greek adult population. An inverse association was observed between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and indices of glucose homeostasis only in normoglycemic people (pp. 32-38). The Mediterranean diet is named after the populations along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea who are most likely to consume it, among them, those in Spain, Italy, especially southern Italy, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus. While the diet received its first focus in the 1940s from Ancel Keys, a brilliant student of human nutrition, it wasn't until recent decades that Dr. Keys's insights in this area have found significant scientific attention. The cover image of the Straits of Gibraltar, the western entrance of the Mediterranean Sea, was taken during the sixth mission (STS-59) of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, April 9th to April 20th, 1994, and is in the public domain. Spain is to the left in the image and Morocco to the right, with the Atlantic below and the Mediterranean above. The Rock of Gibraltar is on the small pointed peninsula extending into the Mediterranean from Spain; Tangier is the light patch on Morocco somewhat up from the Atlantic.
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