Health benefits of an Olive Oil

In these texts, I will tell you how important an Olive Oil is. I have been using an Olive Oil ever since I learned how to cook. Olive Oil is expensive compared with other cooking oils i.e. vegetable oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, and palm oil. And if you are budgeted, Canola Oil can be a sufficiently substitute because it is also a heart-healthy oil.

Today, Olive Oil is the basis for any diet, which we know dramatically, reduces the risks of heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes and many other forms of cancer. Did you know that, if you use an Olive Oil to your salads it will spectacularly add its flavor? Not only it is best for salads but also for dipping your bread in, and grilling delicately flavored foods such as fish. There is virgin, extra-virgin and regular olive oil. They differed on how they processed like slightly more processed and some are chemically treated. So, choosing an Olive Oil depends entirely on a personal taste and it’s really worth experimenting to find which you like the best.

Using olive oil avoids the consumption of saturated fats but it also has its own specific health benefits. The mono-unsaturated fats in the oil help reduce cholesterol levels, and because of its high vitamin E content as well, the oil acts as a strong antioxidant, protecting every individual cell from damage. But there are other benefits, too. Some of the natural chemicals in olive oil prevent the absorption of cholesterol and increase the level of what are called HDLs; high-density lipoproteins.

Olive oil is the best-digested of all the vegetable oils and produces the most effective stimulation of the gall bladder. This is important for overall fat digestion, as the bile stored in the gall bladder breaks down fatty foods into tiny droplets, which are then more easily processed by the digestive juices. This makes olive oil not only valuable for the relief of liver and gall-bladder problems, but also one of the most important things you can eat to protect your liver.