How to Benefit From Olive Oil

Cooking with olive oil is a very effective way to benefit from olive oil. Indeed, for a very long time now, doctors, medical researchers, health experts and others have touted the many health benefits of olive oil. Read on to learn specific ways that you can benefit from olive oil.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• A desire to learn more about olive oil and olive oil health benefits.

1. When you cook with olive oil (as opposed to cooking with other forms of cooking oil), you are making a wise choice. In fact, olive oil is the principal cooking oil used in preparing Mediterranean foods, and the Mediterranean diet is now viewed as one of the healthier eating styles around. Olive oil is also a rich, flavorful oil, so if you do decide to cook with olive oil as opposed to other cooking oils, you won’t be giving up anything at all in terms of taste and flavoring.

2. Because olive oil is primarily composed of monounsaturated fats, it can help you lower cholesterol and prevent the hardening of arteries better than alternative (and typically less flavorful) cooking oils.

3. Olive oil also appears to help the Omega-3 found in oily fish and other foods to perform its functions in your body properly. So when you cook fish (especially oily fish) in olive oil, you are doing yourself a double favor, by eating the nutrient-rich oily fish as well as the olive oil that helps you reap all of the health benefits from the fish.

4. Olive oil also helps your body to manufacture more of the enzymes that are needed to fight cancer, so when you are consuming olive oil on a regular basis, this is yet another important way that you can benefit from olive oil.

5. If you struggle with high blood sugar levels, another way to benefit from olive oil is to reap the rewards of its ability to stabilize blood sugar levels in your body.

Tips & Warnings

• Note that olive oil also contains numerous potent antioxidants, including vitamin E and chlorophyll, and of course antioxidants like these provide you with still more key ways to benefit from olive oil.