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Mediterranean diet can reduce risk of stroke by up to 25%, long-term study suggests
(www.theguardian.com)
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The funny thing about the med diet is that a lot of the prior studies looked at population statistics and postulated that the higher life expectancy near the med was due to diet. It was later found that rampant pension fraud was common in Greece and Italy and that the true life expectancy was no better than elsewhere.