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The Myth of Olive Oil

  • January 11, 2005

There was a lot of hoopla in the press yesterday about a discovery by a group of Northwestern University researchers who found oleic acid, an ingredient of olive oil (believed to be a major contributor to the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet), drastically limited the levels of a gene that triggers breast cancer. Oleic acid cut activity levels of the Her-2/neu gene, which occurs at high levels in more than 20 percent of breast cancer patients and is associated with highly...