[matthewkayin]

I wonder if this is because it has less to do with fat and carbs and more to do with processed foods.

The Mediterranean diet is regarded as quite healthy by many health professionals but, it is also high in carbs and fat. But these are healthy, unprocessed carbs and fats. Whole grains and olive oil.

People going for high fat, low carb / low fat, high carb are usually doing so while also sticking to real foods.

[themk]

When people say "fat" is bad for you, they mean saturated fat. Mediterranean diet is quite low on saturated fat, while still having the good fats.

[D-Machine]

Cochrane systematic reviews should make you seriously question whether the Mediterranean diet really is much good at all - hard data is inconclusive and low quality [1].

In general we really even barely have enough nutritional knowledge to say if the term 'good fats' even makes much scientific sense, but broad and vague things like "Mediterranean diet" are just total nonsense, from the standpoint of serious nutrition science.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6414510/