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Published online 21 May 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020520-2
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Greeks eat chips in Glasgow
Mediterraneans' diet goes native in Europe's heart attack capital.
Greek students living in Glasgow swap tomatoes and olives for chips, lager and fizzy pop, a new study shows. If Mediterraneans can't eat a Mediterranean diet in Scotland, nutritionists are asking, then how can the resident Scots?
The stereotypical Scottish diet is fries, pies and crisps swilled down with litres of lurid orange Irn Bru.
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