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Why the Fat in Olive Oil May Be Fueling Pancreatic Cancer

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Oleic acid has a reputation to uphold. The primary fatty acid in olive oil, it sits at the heart of the Mediterranean diet, a dietary pattern celebrated by cardiologists for decades, incorporated into government guidelines, drizzled over the salads of the health-conscious everywhere. So when Christian Felipe Ruiz, a geneticist at Yale School of Medicine, started feeding mice diets enriched with oleic acid and watched their pancreatic tumors accelerate, it created something of a problem. Not a sc

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