Last year’s harvest of table and oil olives in Greece were at a fifty year high. Normally, the year after a high yield harvest, the trees produce a reduced amount of fruit, giving them a chance to regain their strength. But the 2013 crop suffered further from unusually warm and...
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NEW YORK Mon Aug 20, 2007 Credit: Reuters/Dario Pignatelli NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Eating foods prepared with olive oils that are rich in phenols, substances though to have beneficial effects on the heart, may help ward off harmful blood clots in people with high cholesterol, Spanish researchers report. “Our...
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2007) — A Mediterranean diet may help people with Alzheimer’s disease live longer than patients who eat a more traditional Western diet. The study followed 192 people with Alzheimer’s disease in New York for an average of four and a half years. During that time, 85 of...
A compound in Mediterranean diet could stop breast cancer cells from inhibiting their own death, according to a new study. Researchers from Ohio State University in the United States have suggested that a compound called apigenin, found in certain plant-based foods, alters a specific step in gene regulation and aides...
Benefits of Olive Oil: The Times’s Gina Kolata on a study looking at a Mediterranean diet. By GINA KOLATA About 30 percent of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans,...
