My Guide To Nutrition

Olive oil has been well known to have many different kinds of health benefits and is healthy for out overall body health olive oil is one of the most healthiest types of oils which contain different kinds of minerals that helps in fighting off different types of diseases in forming especially heart diseases one good thing about olive oil is that we can include it in our different types of food and it does taste good on foods.

We can icnlude olive oil in many different forms of foods we can include olive oil in our cookings we can include in our morning bread just pour some olive oil in a bowl and drip the bread with some oil you can also add olive oil into your salad mix i recommend adding olive oil in lots of lettuce and green leafy vegetables it gives it a very good and pleasing taste you can also pour olive oil into potatoes and other different types of vegetables.

Now that we have talked about different recipes that can include olive oil let’s take a break and talk about the benefits of using olive oil in our food specefically the health benefits of including olive oil in our food:

Cardivascular Disease:

Olive oil is very rich in mono saturated fats such as chlorophyll and are also rich in Vitamin A scientists had proven that consuming olive oil will reduce the amount of LDL Cholesterol (Bad Cholesterol) in our body and prevent and reduce the risk of high blood pressure, replacing other forms of fat in your diet with olive oil will prevent the risk of heart attack.

Colon Cancer:

A recent stduy had proved that there is a great link between olive oil and cancer especially colon cancer study had shown that rats that are are fed with a diet rich of olive oil had a lower risk of developing colon cancer recent studies had also hwon a great link between olive oil and breast cancer it had been proven that there is a certain type of mineral in the fats of olive oil which can prevent the rapid growth of cancer tumors in the breast.

Olive oil has also many other benefits that we didn’t mention here olive oil can be used in many forms and has many benefits it can be used for moisturuizing you can use it to moisturuize your body it will give it a nice and good looking glowing skin and you can use it in your hair it can moisturize and provide healthy minerals for your hair if you are trying to be healthy then including olive oil in your diet is essential to provide the healthy fats that the body is looking for.

Now that we have talked about differnet types of recipes that include

Filed under: Healthy Oils on September 20th, 2008