Research shows that eating a Mediterranean-style diet can also reduce your risk of another heart attack.
However, what’s less clear is whether it is specific foods or the Mediterranean diet as a whole – which includes the combination of all the different foods along with the lifestyle and eating pattern that goes with it – that provides the heart health benefit.
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“This makes sense, as it’s true to say that if you are eating a diet that is generally high in saturated fat and salt and low in fruit and vegetables, then adding olive oil won’t compensate if that’s the only change you make,” noted British Heart Foundation’s Victoria Taylor.
She continued: “However, if you adjust your whole diet so that you eat less meat and more fish, replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats such as olive, rapeseed and sunflower oils, and eat more fruit and vegetables, then that could make a significant difference.”
Source: Daily Express
