Nutritionally speaking, extra virgin olive oil is unmatched, despite being 99.9% fat, its vegetable origin makes it cholesterol free, and I feel it is a good food for health.
Its mild flavor makes it perfect for preparing various dishes, providing a unique and characteristic taste that only extra virgin olive oil can give.
There are those who claim that extra virgin olive oil can help you live longer, as it helps prevent and reduce the development of many diseases.
Studies show that consuming extra virgin olive oil daily is essential to prevent certain types of cancer, so it would help to live longer, but not only this, it helps at the stomach and intestinal level, avoiding inflammatory processes that can become annoying.
Unlike normal oils, extra virgin olive oil has omega 3 or essential polyunsaturated fatty acids, that is, fats that our body does not produce and we must add them to our body through what we eat.
The extra virgin olive oil is ideal if we want to improve our diet and lose weight in a healthy way, several studies claim that moderate consumption of this oil can reduce weight, waist circumference and BMI (body mass index) facilitating the loss of those extra kilos.
An article recently published by the scientific journal Diabetes Care revealed several studies explaining that any Mediterranean diet that includes extra virgin olive oil is able to reduce cases of type II diabetes by up to 50%.
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