The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
i think it's the least or the lessening of processed food in the mediterranean diet that is the intervention and we could get the same improvement with any diet i will repeat this we could get the same improvement in cardiovascular outcomes longevity and chronic disease with any diet that eliminates seed oils
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An interesting feature of a Mediterranean diet that not many people are aware of is that a Mediterranean diet focuses on olive oil. Not my favorite fat, I think people would do better with tallow or butter, higher in stearic acid and other odd-chain fatty acids, higher in phytanic acids, but it cuts out the seed oils. Not many people understand that one of the real possibilities for the improvements in cardiovascular outcomes with a Mediterranean diet is the removal of seed oils from the diet. It's a low seed oil diet, and you can see improvements in health outcomes like weight, compliance, etc.