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The advices given by medical
dieticians about healthy food oscillate continuously as time goes by. They
rather look like the alternatives of fashion, than the discoveries of science.
Here are a few examples:
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In the fifties and sixties it was fashionable to disparage
the consumption of olive oil and recommend the use of seed oils, supposed to be
healthier. Heart patients were advised to consume various seed oils, while olive
oil was not even mentioned. Sometimes it was asserted that the consumption of
olive oil increases cholesterol in blood. This policy caused significant damage
to Spain, one of the main olive oil exporters, as stated in a
newspaper article published in 1968:
The economic problems
of the olive grove are motivated, to a great extent, by the change in the taste
of the consumers, who sometime ago were forced to use different seed oils, and
now, when we are trying to bring them back to a higher consumption of olive
oil, they don’t want to do it in the proportion advisable for this market of
the Spanish fruit, as it is rather more expensive.
