My doctor kept shilling me the Mediterranean diet

They also walk a lot, and eat lots of vegetables. Perhaps less important is their strong family unit for psychological support.

I'd be quite happy with either diet and exercise regime, certainly if it involved having to go and live in either location.

And especially if it involved copulating with their people

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Although, isn't the Italian IQ the highest in Europe? Why aren't there that many Italian Fields medalists or Nobel Prize winners?

Because Catholicism is detrimental to intelligence and creativity.

So, that's where all of the Classical and Renaissance thinkers went? With the advent of Catholicism?

Please don't speak negatively about my religion

Your current Pope can't even stand Catholicism.

How so? Seems to me like he can't stand the corrupted priests and all that follows. I doubt he has issues with the fundamentals of Catholicism.