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A deep dive into the polyphenols and monounsaturated fats found in olive oil. This article explores how regular consumption can lower the risk of chronic disease and improve overall metabolic health. A must-read for functional nutrition enthusiasts.

The Mediterranean Diet (MedDiet) is widely accepted as a gold standard diet, yet its adoption and promotion as the healthiest cultural diet reflects systemic racism and inherently biased research rather than evidence-based science. This analysis establishes that while the Mediterranean region is multi-cultural and multi-ethnic, the MedDiet is a white diet. It also asserts that a lack of causal research and other methodologic issues in research about the MedDiet has resulted in a hyperfocus on the MedDiet over other cultural diets. Ultimately, promoting the MedDiet as a gold standard marginalizes people from non-white cultures by maintaining white culture as normative. In order to better serve and include Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, dietary recommendations need to become as diverse as the US population. Doing so will also improve cultural humility among professionals, beget anti-racist dietary research, and promote a more evidence-based dietary perspective.

As such, an inherent preference for a white diet coupled with multiple biases in research led to the systematic exclusion of dietary research about cultural diets and in dietary recommendations. Given that the foundational research of the US DGA is correlational and weak, causal relationships between diet and health outcomes remain unclear. Therefore, to establish the MedDiet as the healthiest cultural diet, based on the findings of correlational research largely focused on white cultures, is unscientific and inherently racist.

Critical analyses that unveil systemic racism and the normativity of whiteness in health and diet research are necessary to creating a just and equitable system that promotes public health for all.

Throughout this article, Black and names of other non-white racial and ethnic groups are capitalized while white is not, so as to both elevate the shared community and identity denoted by the term Black and to squelch any connotations of supremacy associated with capitalizing white

1) Conoscenza: la sensibilizzazione verso lo stile di vita mediterraneo basato sui riti e le tradizioni della Dieta Mediterranea che, oltre ai benefici nutrizionali e ai valori sociali e identitari risulta essere fondamentale per contrastare anche la perdita di biodiversità agricola, connessa alla perdita delle colture tradizionali mediterranee.

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US News evaluated the 38 most popular diets with the help of diet and nutritional experts. They rated them in several different categories. The DASH diet ranked number one and the Mediterranean diet ranked number two overall. Both diets use extra virgin olive oil as their primary fat for cooking and adding to recipes. The Mediterranean diet ranked number one as the easiest to follow. The entire study is very interesting, you can read about it here.