Mediterranean diet and physical activity: An intervention study. Does olive oil exercise the body through the mind?

Several studies address how different features of unhealthy lifestyle and obesity are detrimental in cardiovascular disease . The Mediterranean diet, assumed as a paradigm of healthy nutrition, is still studied, envisaging even pharmacological effects . Other scientific contributions, without correct information, could be more negative than useful for the enhancement of healthier behavior: actually, in such studies, the successful counseling focused to secondary prevention-treatment should deserve more emphasis and dissemination. A recent investigation claims that an energy-unrestricted Mediterranean diet supplemented with either extra-virgin olive oil or nuts has a favorable role in cardiovascular death prevention ; nonetheless, no difference in the overall mortality among the three groups of treatment (with olive oil, mixed nuts and nothing) was demonstrated, and the slightly lower mortality for stroke and myocardial infarction is not so impressive facing with the identical all-cause mortality . A missing information determines concerns , with the consequent question: toward which cause of mortality, apart from myocardial infarction and stroke, was there a shift in the subjects of the olive oil-nuts group? An elegant clinical intervention demonstrates an enhancement effect of olive oil on physical activity by a Mediterranean diet . Beginning with the early clinical and epidemiological researches, the prominent role of olive oil in this nutritional pattern and its likely ben...
Source: International Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Letters to the Editor Source Type: research