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Vegetarians and the bible diet: olives and olive oil
For vegetarian and non-vegetarian alike, consuming olives and the oil derived from them, has amazing health benefits especially for those who have chosen to use olive oil instead of animal and vegetable fats. These people are significantly healthier and disease-free than those who don’t.
Olives are a fruit, low in calories and do well as a snack to curb hunger pains. A green, water-packed, medium-sized olive has 2 calories. Three brine cured green olives have 25 calories. Three brine-cured black olives have 40 calories. Olives have the same phenol compounds as the oil, but far fewer. It’s the oil, pressed from olives allowed to ripen on the tree, which contains the most concentrated phenols.
Cold pressed, extra virgin olive oil packaged in opaque bottles is the best way to preserve the phenols found in the oil. It’s the phenols that provide your body with the incredible disease preventing benefits. Light and heat can quickly destroy them, so buy only small amounts of oil at a time and keep it refrigerated. The oil will solidify during refrigeration, but quickly “thaws” after a few minutes at room temperature.
A diet where olive oil is the principal fat consumed by people, as opposed to vegetable oil, animal fat and hydrogenated fat, has been proven to show a far lower rate of many life-threatening diseases such as asthma, diabetes, colon cancer and heart disease. There have been significant medical studies done proving that the consumption of olive oil instead of the “bad” fats, lower the LDL cholesterol and raise the “good” HDL. It appears that olive oil can also lower both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. There are many studies being conducted at this time to test the phenols found in olive oil that can be used as protection from colon cancer, peptic and gastric ulcers and also as an anti-inflammatory drug.
