Balanced News: Mediterranean Diet Greatly Reduces Heart Disease Risk in Women

The Mediterranean diet is a diet that emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, seafood, lean protein, and healthy fats such as olive oil and nuts. It appears to reduce the risks of heart disease and death in women. Women of all ethnicities seem to benefit from following the diet. Future studies should explore the reasons why the Mediterranean diet is linked with lower heart disease and death.