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If Spain has the best diet why did it take this long to rise up in the rankings?

>>atomic+(OP)
Diet is not everything in the equation and we already have the highest life expectancy in Europe, so we're already "high enough". Also things like eliminating pollution from especially cities have become hot topics recently and that's also helped and etc..

My claim specifically, was that I find it rather surprising that olive oil is unhealthy, when the soon to be country with the highest life expectancy in the world, consumes per person 10 kg of it every year.

>>Escolt+LJ
I think everyone wants to live the longest possible and not long enough as considered by someone else. Maybe people in Spain would live even longer without olive oil?

Also, consider that over 50% of the adult population in Spain is overweight. Maybe less oil would improve issues that come from being overweight and obese.

Plus, leading cause of death in Spain is heart disease.

>>atomic+UU
Yeah right but the obesity increase is mostly correlated all around the world and here with the increased consumption of "junk food", i.e. highly processed and very high in sugar, not with olive oil consumption, so...

>>atomic+UU
Thank you, this was nearly exactly what I was going to reply

>>Escolt+k41
But supposedly these Spaniards are consuming oil and not sugar. Perhaps they need to drink it!

>>atomic+SE1
They already did. Valter Longo cited studies with an average intake of 1 litre a day. Gist is, it was quite good for them.