A Healthy Diet Can Include A Lot Of Fat, University of Minnesota Study

Hanna Bloomfield's bosses at the Department of Veterans Affairs had been reading a lot about the plant-based Mediterranean diet. Some highly publicized recent studies had shown that eating lots of fresh vegetables and olive oil along with maybe a splash of red wine could have tremendous health benefits, and they wondered whether it was something the VA, as an organization, should consider recommending to its more than 9 million patients.

They tasked Bloomfield with figuring out whether this health effect was real — or simply hype.