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Olive Oil As Medicine
That the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest in the world is an indisputable fact supported by many medical studies. What I do not know yet is that one of its pillars, the extra virgin olive oil contains certain natural chemicals that produce an antiinflammatory effect in the body. It is therefore a reason to eat this beneficial product, rich in heart healthy essential oils and anti-cancer properties.
U.S. experts have found in extra virgin olive oil a compound that has christened oleocanthal, which according to his research, inhibits the enzyme activity of cyclooxygenase (COX), a pharmacological action of ibuprofen itself. The findings of this study have been made known through the scientific journal Nature.
“Some of the health effects related to the Mediterranean diet could be due to the natural anti-COX activity of oleocanthal found in olive oil quality,” says the Nature biologist Gary Beauchamp of Monell Químicosensoriales Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania (USA). Read the rest of this entry »
The Best Diet Tips to Lose weight
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Diet to Lose weight
Everyone knows that the key to losing weight: Eat less and exercise. It sounds really simple, but in real life is not so and each point leads to certain demands and constraints for our body. It is then that experts conducted a survey of the best professional dietitians to collect this list of 15 valuable tips to lose weight with a good diet:
Drink water in large quantities, or else another drink at 0 calories.
Women taking people tend to confuse hunger with thirst. Some make the mistake of eating only needed calories when drinking a glass of water.
If you do not like to drink pure water, you can try adding a little juice of any citrus fruit or a little mango or peach tea, which add flavor to water but not calories. Read the rest of this entry »
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