After studying the relationships between a variety of foods and mortality from heart disease over a 35-year period, researchers have further validated the protective effect of the "Mediterranean" diet against heart attack.

They studied the relationship between a variety of foods and the rates of death from heart attack in the European Union. They found the consumption of vegetables, vegetable fat, fruit and wine to be related to lower death rates from heart attack. Consumption of meat, animal fat, dairy products, beer and sugar was related to higher death rates.

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