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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:481-482
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Cardiovascular Disease

Commentary: Is olive oil a key ingredient in the Mediterranean recipe for health?

AR Ness

University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

There is no single Mediterranean diet. The traditional diets of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, however, share a number of common features. They are (or were) plant-based with olive oil as the principal fat.1 These diets appear to be healthful. The Seven Countries study showed that Mediterranean populations studied in the 1960s and 1970s had low rates of death attributed to coronary heart disease and low rates of death from all causes in middle age.2 Furthermore, the favourable health experience of Greek migrants . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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