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More proof Mediterranean diet can ward off heart disease

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Best way to ensure good health is to have robust ancestors. As far as supplements or vitamins, you'd might as well save your money and eat M&Ms candy instead -- extensive research has proved that they make no difference at all.

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Where did he get the "leave out meat" idea. No Mediterranean meal or menu is without meat, but he takes these results to suggest meatless meals. Some folks can't read their own research.

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edbardoeMar. 08, 2013 - 11:03AM JST Where did he get the "leave out meat" idea. No Mediterranean meal or menu is without meat, but he takes these results to suggest meatless meals. Some folks can't read their own research.

Yes, I lived in Italy for a while and there was meat with almost every meal. Not a lot, sometimes just enough for the taste, but there was always some. I'd say that more reasonable advice would be reduce the amount of meat in one's diet. .... of course most of us in Japan already have done that since meat is so expensive here (plus there's tons of other nice stuff to eat).

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Where did he get the "leave out meat" idea. No Mediterranean meal or menu is without meat, but he takes these results to suggest meatless meals

I imagine he means it as a way of getting people to cut back on the amount of meat they eat. For many meat-eaters, veggies are just the stuff that decorates the edges of the plate around the lump of flesh in the middle. What he's saying is to practice thinking in terms of meat not being the main component of the meal.

cooking with olive oil and drinking red wine with meals rather than hard alcohol.

I never drink red wine with hard alcohol, it ruins the flavour of both.

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forgoing meat one or two days a week, cooking with olive oil and drinking red wine with meals rather than hard alcohol

It's been a long time since I could afford to eat meat in Japan ! As for olive oil, that's the ONLY oil I use and of course, red wine with the meal. ("Hard alcohol" would be a "digestif").

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@VIRTUOSO... Sorry but you are wrong!... vitamin and mineral supplements have proven themselves in 3rd world countries.... Food, medicine, vitamins and minerals have all been given by the USA to poor nations along with clean water etc etc.... check your "extensive research" again please

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^because 3rd world countries don't get enough vitamins from the food they eat so these supplements make a world of difference? while americans (developed nations) get enough through their diet and taking the extra vitamins makes no difference? just a thought

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No much added value for this article. I have no idea what "Mediterranean diet" means. If I eat kebabs, merguez and briks all the time, it's not Mediterranean ?

No Mediterranean meal or menu is without meat,

Hey ! For Lent, I replace the kebab by falafel. I do wrong ? Is theret meat in that ? Wait the Japanese label tells me there is hiyoko, baby chicken ? Oh... I'm choking on my baklava. Well seriously, I don't understand what their sample people were eating before. As Spaniard, weren't they likely to bath in olive oil since birth ? And then what did they change ?

Food, medicine, vitamins and minerals have all been given by the USA to poor nations

So if the US gave, that proves it's effective ? But they have American surveys that find that people that take supplements (besides prescription for specific and identified conditions) , the people that get the pills from the pharmacy or even supermarket, had no measurable benefits. They even find they are less healthy, but that might be because they are feeling bad that they take auto-medication, or they suffer from their general approach that makes them sicker (like they take pill rather than eating better, sleeping better, exercising...),

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@malfupete.. the thought is.. vitamin supplements work...

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@cos.... vitamin supplements have been proven ... period

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alright then, I'm gonna crack open a bottle of flintstone vitamins!!

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The comment of "what you don't eat", makes no sense. Only what you do eat can affect your health. I think people should just eat olives.....what makes them think only the oil is useful? Nuts with their protein and great oils are probably better for your health than olive oil. If anyone lived on a diet of veggies, fruit and nuts, seeds, they probably would live as healthy a life as is possible, from food. Nuts, especially, are a ready to eat food that requires no treatment (like olives do) to be edible.

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