From: Doug Skrecky (oberon@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Tue Dec 08 1998 - 06:07:06 MST
> Do you know how these peanut results compare to the use of olive oil, the
> monounsaturated oil prominent in the highly regarded "Mediterranean diet"?
> Years ago some scientists (from Harvard maybe?) argued that the
> Mediterranean was even better than the then popular extreme low fat diet.
> And could peanut oil, used in at least Chinese cooking, account for the
> healthy hearts of traditional-food-eating Asians?
>
Almonds has outperformed olive oil as well in (J Am Coll Nut 17(3):
285-290 1998). Almonds offered a better ratio of good to bad
lipoprotein cholesterol than olive oil did.
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