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Article: CHANGING YOUR OIL OLIVE OIL NEWS HAS COOKS POPEYED
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 18, 1990
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Olive oil is the common ingredient among Antipasto Salad, center, Pasta Genovese with Lettuce Pesto, lower left, Old World Grain Bread and Mediterranean Onion Soup. (Color)
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Wine, pasta and olive oil: Those are the three staples of the Mediterranean diet. And while Americans have consumed pasta and wine in copious quantities for quite some time, olive oil is just beginning to come into its own as a valued dietary component.
Scientific research has found that Mediterraneans who stick to a traditional diet that is low in fats and red meats and high in olive oil have half as many heart attacks and much less ...