Olive Oil and Your Health
Finally, healthy fat is getting its due. Nutritionists know that good fat is imperative to good health. Many credit olive oil with being the perfect food actually lowering cholesterol – and it tastes better than fish oil! A healthy diet includes 15-20 percent of daily caloric intake in monounsaturated fatty acids – make yours olive oil. Olive oil is loaded with vitamins A and E. It has potent antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties that is exciting to the medical community. Olive oil lowers LDL, making it very important in heart health. My husband’s cholesterol dropped 60 points within 4 months of opening Ah love and the only thing that changed in his diet was the source of the olive oil he was eating. Extra virgin matters if you’re using olive oil for health.
Olive oil has been used for centuries in Mediterranean cultures
- o calm upset stomachs
- As a natural laxative
- To sooth earaches
- To ease the pain of arthritis
- To prevent colon cancer
- As a hangover relief!
- To kill head lice
- To relieve muscle cramps
- To repel insects
- To suffocate ticks
- To relieve man-of-war and jellyfish stings.
- …just to name a few!