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Article: Checking the (olive) oil; Additive to praised low-fat Mediterranean diet.(LIFE - HEALTH)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2006
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Mediterranean diet: myth or miracle? Hardly a week goes by without news of a study showing the healthy effects of this diet, followed on occasion by another study disputing the claims - or at least saying that results were exaggerated.
The latest report comes out of New York's Columbia University Medical Center, where scientists have found that reliance on vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals and fish, but little meat, dairy and alcohol - the essence of a low-fat Mediterranean-style diet -could help ward off Alzheimer's disease by 40 percent. (The research was not challenged immediately, although the authors ...