Does the definition of the Mediterranean diet need to be updated?

The term ‘Mediterranean diet’ reflects the dietary patterns characteristic of several countries in the Mediterranean Basin during the early 1960s. The association between greater longevity and reduced mortality and morbidity for coronary heart disease, certain cancers and other nutrition-related diseases, and the common dietary food patterns in these countries, have substantiated this concept. Such patterns were defined in 1993 at the International Conference on the Diets of the Mediterranean, having also been previously defined in other meetings. They comprise: