Talk:Mediterranean diet reduces risk of Alzheimer's disease, study concludes

With those three different people not showing enthousiasm about the pertinence of my neverheless recent Turkish source...

(cur) (last) 15:06, 14 October 2006 FellowWikiNews (Talk | contribs) (Put {notnews} instead of speedy.)

(cur) (last) 13:12, 14 October 2006 82.224.88.52 (Talk) {delete|deletion asked by the author}

(cur) (last) 11:49, 14 October 2006 Brianmc (Talk | contribs) (not finished, material doesn't go after sources)

(cur) (last) 11:34, 14 October 2006 82.224.88.52 (Talk) (Please avoid removing not ultimate flags such as {finished} just saying I disagree that this article is ready to be published))

(cur) (last) 11:27, 14 October 2006 Apartmento2 (Talk | contribs) (I disagree that this article is ready to be published)

...why keep my article if none of them pinpoint precisely what's wrong with it. 82.224.88.52 15:51, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I removed the speedy template because this article should not be speedied.FellowWikiNews (W) 15:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

There are a couple of sources on Google news. See [1]. FellowWikiNews (W) 16:00, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

My Turkish source is imho the one nearer from Méditerranée. 82.224.88.52 16:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

This article sounds ready to be published, imo. FellowWikiNews (W) 16:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Issues:

1. First sentence is grandstanding crap & totally misrepresents the research, by implying that fruits are not required.
2. Second sentence has a place, but its wording is pure grandstanding
3. Third sentence actually manages to misattribute the research!!

In addition, the first use of "Mediterranean diet" should use quotes.

I've removed Turkey as a category, if you need a national category Greece is the appropriate one, but this diet extenst as far as southern France, Portugal, and Morocco.

See also fatness issues and the following wikipedia quote:

There is also the far simpler explanation that inhabitants of the Mediterranean, and Europe in general, tend to lack the heavy reliance on the automobile as the basic means of transportation, and are far more likely to walk relatively short distances than Americans.

Nyarlathotep 17:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Author

This does not read like an article written by a native English speaker, and reads like an advert for the BBC report. --Brian McNeil / ^talk 18:41, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I'm not a native ;-))) and you knew it since France was beaten by Scotland at soccer. Anyway, I feel rather disappointed that all my text has vanished even if the new one is obviously better. Let me suggest to replace the last source by this one 82.224.88.52 04:22, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

... unless PDF reprints are allowed

Theres an anon who wants to add something to it or something like that - see Post-scriptorium on mediterain diet (or something like that, I'm using lynx so I proabblly got the name slightly worng). Happy editing. 24.65.46.104 05:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC) - user:Bawolff

It's me the anon ;-))) but I don't want to add anything on the actual article because it won't be printed again since the date is yesterday's one. 82.224.88.52 05:20, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Intro paragraphs

I removed this intro:

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In the previous centuries in Middle East, there were no need for diet prescriptions to put on one's table vegetables and fruits, mainly of the citrus family. Nowadays, the young generation is less likely to walk relatively short distances and is driven by advertisements to use more occidental recipes including hamburgers in fast-food restaurants.

I found no equivalent for it in the study or in the news sources, so I think this might be some form of original reporting that is not NPOV and lacks original reporting notes.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:13, 15 October 2006 (UTC)