Mediterranean diet

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Here we dish out everything about this Mediterranean-diet staple, from its health benefits to how to store it, plus our secrets on which olive oil is best and how to use it.

The first detailed study of this storied heart-healthy diet goes all the way back to the 1940s on Crete — the largest of the Greek islands in the Mediterranean. Find out what the island’s inhabitants were doing so right. Their lessons might astonish you.