A Mediterranean-style diet high in olive oil and low in starch, meat and whole-milk products may be the best diet a diabetic can have, a new study has found.

The Mediterranean-style diet turned out to be even healthier than the high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet that until last month was recommended by the American Diabetes Association.

Dr. Abhimanyu Garg of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas compared a diet high in monounsaturated fat - mainly from olive oil - to a diet high in carbohydrates, such as breads, beans, fruit, pasta and starchy vegetables.

After 14 weeks, those on the olive oil diet had triglyceride levels that were 24 percent lower, "bad" LDL ...

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