Originally Posted by
wolfchild
Complete fanaticism.
If you're denying health benefits of organic virgin olive oil and if you're denying the health benefits of Mediterranean diet then you're denying facts and science.
Olive Oil IS healthy -- when used to replace purely saturated fats. But even then, Olive Oil is also 10% saturated fat itself -- higher than the 7% recommendation.
The Mediterranean Diet IS healthy -- when compared to the Standard American Diet.
But comparing any food to those monsters sets the bar pretty low. Actually, olive oil is a refined, processed food stripped of its normal nutrients just as sugar is -- and both will make you fat instead of healthy. But, like sugar, it can make food taste better...
Is a Whole Food Plant Based Diet extreme? For many thousands of years it was the basis for all successful large populations -- until the western diet and McDonald's covered the world. Now, populations where heart disease and diabetes were unknown are developing epidemics of those diseases. No, ripping someone's chest open to graft veins onto their heart (as a result of an unhealthy diet) is extreme though...
But I have to laugh! Now you are defending the Mediterranean Diet?
... You must feel really threatened by a healthy diet if you are resorting that!
Your attacks are just that. Attacks. They serve no purpose other than to satisfy your desperation to justify your own unhealthy diet by disparaging a healthy diet.