About Olive Oil

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 has been used for centuries in Mediterranean cultures
	•		To calm upset stomachs	•		Kill head lice
	•		As a natural laxative	•		To relieve muscle cramps
	•		To sooth earaches	•		Repel insects
	•		Ease the pain of arthritis	•		Suffocate ticks
	•		To prevent colon cancer	•		Relieve man-of-war and jellyfish stings.
	•		Even as a hangover relief!	•		...just to name a few!