[Matthewiiv]

It's almost as if human nutrition and mortality are complex systems and a single foodstuff doesn't have any significant effect.

Not only that but surely nobody is surprised that the people who can afford the more expensive version of a product live longer.

Why have we not given up on this nonsense idea of miracle foods already?

[ROTMetro]

Quoting DoingIsLearning from these comments:

The study was in Spain were both the quality of olive oil is very high and the retail cost fairly low comparatively with the rest if the world. Also many arguably poor farmers will grow their own olive trees and distribute the oil yield among their wider family.

So perhaps not so case closed as you say.

[Matthewiiv]

That's a fair point, although I would argue that if good quality olive oil is very cheap, then perhaps it's the other way round. Only the very poorest are forced to consume non extra virgin olive oil.

Also, I'm not sure about Spain but farmers generally have noticeably higher life expectancy than the average.

[fithisux]

So the study does not account/adjust for other factors.

Very interesting.

[Matthewiiv]

It does, but at some point a bigger study will come along that accounts for more factors, and that will find there's no effect.

[deandublin]

did you read it?

it just says unheated OO is better than the heated stuff. Pretty obvious that heating food can kill the good stuff, if there is good stuff in it to start with, that it.

[brutusborn]

Where does it say that?