The Benefit Of Olive Oil - More Body Health Discoveries In The Mediterranean Diet
Who would’ve guessed that the collapse of the “Evil Empire” and Communist Eastern Europe would trigger a rise in chronic disease and cardiovascular deaths? And who would guess that exotic life-enhancing substances in olive oil and olive pulp are rapidly becoming one of a number of “super foods” capable of boosting your immune system and helping you create chronic disease defenses?
Daily life meant poor quality foodstuffs along with absorbing unimaginable levels of environmental toxins. Mounting research data confirms that the heavy-handed state sponsored environmental decay left the people in an extreme at-risk state. Results? People’s bodies were swarming with free radicals, busily munching on and corrupting cells, leaving people vulnerable to a host of chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease, along with shortened lives.
What Are The Magic Essences Creating The Olive Oil Health Benefit? Inside many of the domesticated plants commonly eaten by people and animals are unique highly active compounds called polyphenols. Roughly 8,000 of these compounds have been identified. These polyphenol substances occur in a second phase of plant metabolism and offer the plant vital protection against premature break-down, rancidity and cell-damaging oxidation.
Olive Oil And The Other Antioxidant Super Foods. Think of these warrior antioxidant compounds when you look at grains such as barley and sorghum, fruits like olives apples apricots pears, dry beans and peas, blackberries cranberries grapes strawberries, teas and wine, veggies such as onions celery parsley and cabbage.
Benefit Of Olive Oil - Cholesterol And Heart Disease. By now you’re up on the role of healthy versus unhealthy fats in the blood. In the case of LDL (low density lipo-proteins) associated with cholesterol plaque-like build up in your vascular system, olive oil and its rich brew of antioxidant polyphenols, when taken daily along with a glass of wine and breads like the Mediterranean Diet directs, inhibits this process. Result? You eat like you’re living in Portugal or Italy, yet you’ll feel and look healthier.
Beating Back Microbes - More Benefits Of Olive Oil. Take some of the worst bad guys of intestinal infection, like salmonella or cholera or even staphylococcus, then watch them “take it on the chin” when olive oil antioxidant polyphenols are added! If you or your pet want to promote intestinal health, and keep pests and microbes at bay, then eating extra virgin olive oil (cold pressed un-refined) or olive pulp can hardly be matched for it protective powers.
Olive Oil Protecting Your From Passive Smoke Risks. You don’t buy cigarettes yet you smoke! Yes, there’s always someone, somewhere who lights up and then shares all these nasty airborne carcinogens with the rest of us who just happen to need to breath. Solution? A raft of recent health studies show that eating olive oil rich in these antioxidants will help you to reduce ” oxidative stress” associated with secondary smoke.
Benefit Of Olive Oil For Skin Damage. Looking for the “perfect tan”? If so, then you might also start an incremental process of self-destruction within your outer layer of skin cells. Excess sun and ultraviolet light cause skin cells to break-down, which releases a host of nasty compounds variously described as “free radicals”. Do nothing and these substances gnaw away at your immune system and cause all sorts of health risks. Fortunately olive oil and its array of antioxidant polyphenols can counter these free radicals, aggressively hunting down and destroying free radical better than any other substance.
Your Joints - Getting The Olive Oil Health Benefit For Daily Life. New studies show that olive oil or olive pulp and water are new miracle workers in terms of your joint health. Walking, hanging onto objects, stretching…just about all movements were enhanced when people consumed olive oil.
Which Olive Oil Works Best? Getting the olive oil health benefit means being a smart shopper. Buy extra virgin cold press olive oil, which can contain up to 80 parts per million of antioxidant polyphenols as compared to “refined olive oil” which reformulates inferior grade oil via high heat and charcoal filtering, however results in only 5 parts per million of antioxidant polyphenols. Remember to buy the “youngest” shelf-dated olive oil, and one that has been stored properly.
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