Athens (dpa) – A Greek salad instead of a ham-filled croissant on your lunch break. Fish instead of red meat on the grill in the evening. If you follow a Mediterranean diet, it may well be for health reasons. Maybe your doctor recommended it to lower your risk of cardiovascular or other diseases. Don't expect quick benefits though, says nutritional medicine specialist Dr Stephan Bischoff: "Reducing your risk factors for diabetes or a heart attack won't occur overnight – it'll take a while." Sometimes the diet's positive effects only show up after years or even decades. Its followers should also bear in mind that, like everything in medicine, there's no absolute guarantee it'll help. "In all diseases there's both a lifestyle and a genetic component, so inherited risk remains," Bischoff expl

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