Though it's been known for a while that the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, healthy oils such as olive oil, fish, red wine, and modest amounts of cheese, meat, dairy, can lower risk of heart disease, even among those at high risk, a study just released showed that the benefits of this diet are more numerous and more dramatic than previously realized. Meir Stampfer, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, led the study.
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