For the last 20 years, Mylona has been looking at the eating habits of the early inhabitants of the island, through her work with the Institute of Aegean Prehistory Study Center.
The average American currently gets 23 teaspoons' worth of added sugar daily (more than the Greeks ate in a week).
But it turns out what was left had great nutritional benefits. Perhaps the greatest example is the wild field greens that women gathered in the winter and spring months, known as horta.
Over the last 70 years, studies have gone back and forth on the benefits of alcohol (of any kind).
Another dozen miles up the road toward Crete's western shore stands the Olive Tree of Vouves.
Greeks often joke that in the rocky highlands of Crete "there are more goats than Greeks.