18 May, 2016 @ 09:05
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Junk food not as bad for you if you follow Mediterranean diet, experts claim

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med dietJUNK food does not increase the likelihood of a heart attack when eaten alongside a healthy Mediterranean diet, new research claims.

The study, published in the European Heart Journal, followed 15,000 heart disease sufferers across 39 countries.

It discovered there were three fewer heart attacks, strokes or deaths per 100 people who ate a classic mediterranean diet – fresh fruit and vegetables, oily fish and olive oil – than those following any other, irrespective of junk food intake.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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