What does the evidence say about the Mediterranean diet?

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Sharon A. Watts is an NP in endocrinology at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and is the Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Advisor for the Office of Nursing Services Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. Carl Stevenson is a staff RN at the Boise VA Medical Center in Boise, Idaho. Julianne Patterson is an RN certified diabetes educator at the VA Central Iowa Health Care System in Des Moines, Iowa.

Published: March 2018

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