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The real Mediterranean diet had substantial dairy. Olive oil is okay but fattening with too much linoleic acid content to justify daily consumption compared to coconut oil or butter. Wheat consumption is pointless and hardly comparitively nutritious if a root or tuber such as potatoes or good fruit is available. Depending on processing and packaging, tomato sauce often picks up metals such as aluminum because of its acidity.

>>138809

Meme

There are definitely worse diets, like the standard American one primarily comprised of sugar bread, dairy, processed bullshit, and shitty meat.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/the-science-of-saturated-fat-a-big-fat-surprise-about-nutrition-9692121.html

>>138966

>Moreover, due to difficulties in collecting accurate nutrition data, Keys ended up sampling the diets of fewer than 500 men, far from a statistically significant sample. And the study’s star subjects – men on the Greek island of Crete who tilled their fields well into old age and appeared to eat very little meat or cheese – turned out to have been partly sampled during Lent, when the study subjects were foregoing meat and cheese. This must have led Keys to undercount their saturated-fat consumption. These flaws weren’t revealed until much later. By then, the misimpression left by the erroneous data had become international dogma.

>>138967

>>138966

Yeah, well, let's say people wouldn't be as easily misled if they were informed more about experiments than observational studies. Experiments on rats and mice usually predict quite well what will happen in human subjects.