The Mediterranean diet has been known for years as the healthiest diet in the world. Doctors and nutritionists recommend the Mediterranean diet to their patients. This perception and attitude has led to the devaluation of other regional foods which, upon further investigation, may be, if not more, as healthy as the Mediterranean diet. An example of such a situation is my regional diet, the Ghanaian diet. This article therefore aims to demonstrate that my regional diet is just as nutritious, accessible and even cheaper than the Mediterranean diet, using Greece as a focus in the Mediterranean region. I'll start this article with a brief history of the whole Mediterranean diet idea. I then proceed to do my analysis on both diets based on nutritional value, accessibility and cost-effectiveness or economic aspects. The term Mediterranean diet refers to dietary patterns found in the olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean region. (Antonia Trichopoulou and Pagona Lagion, 2009). The Mediterranean diet is based on dietary patterns typical of Crete, much of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy in the early 1960s, where adult life expectancy was among the highest in the world and rates of disease coronary heart disease, some cancers and other diet-related chronic diseases were among the lowest in the world. (WC Willet, 1995). Over 60 years ago scientists began studying the healthiest modern population. A nutritionist named Ansel Keys noticed that men who lived in the mountains of Crete and ate a traditional Cretan diet had low rates of heart disease and cancer and lived to a ripe old age. So he designed a 15-year study, conducted in seven nations, to investigate how different regional diets affected disease rates and mortality. He looked at Greece (Crete), ...... in the center of the document ...... seen from the Natural Products Insider website: http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com. November 9, 2013. Sekyi, K. A. (2012, January 1). Ghanaian eating habits: time for consolidation of reforms or globalization. Retrieved from Ghana website: http://www.ghanaweb.com. November 7, 2013. Shirley, T. R. (2009). Greece. Retrieved from Kidcyber: http://www.kidcyber.com. November 5, 2010. Tallmadge, K. (2013, July 6). Is your olive oil as healthy as you think? Retrieved from Livescience website: htpp://www.livescience.com. November 2, 2013.WC Willet, PS-L. (1995, June). Pyramid of the Mediterranean Diet: a cultural model for healthy eating. Retrieved from The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/61/6/1402S.short. November 4, 2013.Wilson, L. (April 2013). Mediterranean diet and modifications. Retrieved from htpp://www.drlwilson.com/articles/mediterranean. October.29, 2013.