Mediterranean diet: a healthy alternative? Against a backdrop of promotion, experts debate the benefits of olive oil

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: January 27, 1993| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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