Mediterranean diet, really beneficial or wishful thinking?
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mediterranean dietAbstract
In the 1960s, Ancel Keys described the low rates of coronary heart disease in the countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea from the Seven Country Study.
Although a high amount of fat was ingested, although unlike Western food, it is made up of fats from olive oil, pork and fish and dried fruits. Carbohydrate intake is lower, and so both monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids reduce LDL and triglycerides and increase HDL.These beneficial metabolic effects are greater in the presence of insulin resistance.
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II. Keys A, et al. The diet and 15-year death rate in the seven countries study. American Journal of Epidemiology 1986;124(6):903-15.
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