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Article: Mediterranean diet: a healthy alternative? Against a backdrop of promotion, experts debate the benefits of olive oil
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1993
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CopyrightCopyright 1993 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Americans love the idea that a single food will cure what ails
them, a fact that olive oil promoters have seized upon. People
looking to reduce their risk of heart disease, they say, should use
olive oil in place of other oils -- a position debated by health
educators, nutritionists, scientists and policy makers at a
conference in Cambridge last week on the benefits of the
Mediterranean diet.
The three-day "1993 International Conference on the Diets of the
Mediterranean," at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, was sponsored by Oldways
Preservation & Exchange Trust, a Boston organization, and the Harvard
School of Public Health, with support from members of the
International Olive Oil Council. ...