Brigham and Women’s Hospital, December 7, 2018 A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health offers insights from a cohort study of women in the US who reported consuming a Mediterranean-type diet. Researchers found a 25 percent reduction in the risk […]
Reprinted from the Health Sciences Institute website, August 22, 2011: Spanish researchers believe they’ve broken the code—a genetic code, in fact. And not only does it appear to be the secret to why olive oil is so heart-healthy, it might also be the key reason Mediterranean dieters live long, robust lives. Twenty subjects with metabolic […]
The following article by Dr. Mehmet Oz and Michael Roizen is excerpted from the Washington Examiner, December 28, 2012 Olive Oyl may have been Popeye’s one and only, but we doubt he could have loved her any more than we adore olive oil—another of the odd omega monounsaturated fats. This one is mainly omega-9, and […]
The following article by Mark L. Fuerst is reprinted from Psychiatric Times, March 31, 2014. Two new studies show the heart-healthy benefits of eating a Mediterranean diet. One study linked the diet to a lower risk of diabetes mellitus (DM), especially among those at high risk for cardiovascular disease… In the first pooled analysis of […]