Word: diets
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...traditional diet of Greece and other Mediterranean countries is linked to lower mortality rates, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health...
...There have really been thousands of studies on particular components of diets," said Trichopoulos. "But there has been very little attention on what the whole diet can do to overall health, as reflected on overall survival...
...problem that faces many studies which begin following adults is that they must wait a long time in order to determine whether mortality is associated with overall diet," Trichopoulos said...
Subjects were given a classification from one to eight, depending on how closely they followed the eight defined components of a traditional Mediterranean diet...
Subjects who followed this traditional diet closely and had a high score were then compared to subjects who followed it loosely and had a low score. Other factors were taken into account in these comparisons, such as differences in exercise levels, smoking status, gender and exact...