Mediterranean Diet ‘Just as Good as Statins’ for Preventing Heart Disease

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By Seth Pollard

Do a quick search for “Mediterranean diet” on our site and you will find oodles of articles espousing the health benefits of this eating lifestyle. In December, yet another study showed that people who eat a Mediterranean-style diet have a lower risk of cardiovascular disease – possibly even as low as those taking statin drugs.

Let’s see why this diet can be so good for the heart.

Lead study author Shafqut Ahmad, Ph.D., a research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, said of the findings:

“We didn’t know the potential mechanisms of how …read more

Source: naturalsociety.com

    

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