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OLIVE OIL AND HEALT
The olive oil can be perfectly characterized as a very healthy oil. Any right and balanced diet should include olive oil in its daily program. The aroma and taste that it lends to all dishes in unique and incomparable. As all other oils, olive oil contains fatty acids, which are divided in 3 types: saturated, mono-unsaturated, and poly-unsaturated. Animal fats mainly contain saturated fatty acids, seed-oils contain poly-unsaturated, while olive oil contains mainly mono-unsaturated fatty acids in as much as 83%. Oleic acid, olive oil’s main ingredient, represents such a mono unsaturated fatty acid. As a main source of fatty acids, the olive oil helps in:

The reduction of "bad" cholesterol (LDL) in the blood
The preservation of "good" cholesterol (HDL) in the blood
The prevention of artery obstruction and consequently the prevention of heart disease
Healing stomach and duodenum ulcers since it promotes digestion
Effecting the metabolism of diabetics favorably thus, balancing out sucrose levels
Contributing to the prevention of cancer
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