date:Nov 13, 2012
ly eating fish on a Friday was a very simple and easy to follow method of preventing heart disease.
However, there is more to the Mediterranean diet than the omega-3 fatty acids provided from fish. And in the original diet, which was common in Crete, these were also obtained from molluscs such as mussels, squid and cuttlefish.
The mono-unsaturated fatty acids from olive (and rapeseed) oil were also important elements in the diet, according to Professor Julie Lovegrove from the Institute for Ca