The main and still unattainable dream of mankind at all times has been and remains a cure for all diseases. However, neither technological progress nor incredible computer capabilities have yet been able to help us achieve this goal. Therefore, traditional medicine and healthy products donated to us by nature itself remain the most effective way of healing the body. Especially effective of these is olive oil - a real panacea that can defeat even cancer cells! But what is the superiority of foreign olive to domestic sunflower? And can this miraculous medicine harm your own health? On the benefits and dangers of olive oil on an empty stomach, reviews of people taking it, read the article.
Olive - a gift from Athens
As the ancient peoples liked to compose legends and myths about everything valuable and inexplicably useful, so it is said about Greek olive that it was a gift from the goddess of wisdom and peace of Athena. Allegedly, this divine lady once argued with her husband Poseidon about the name of the new city of Attica. Zeus helped them resolve the dispute by declaring competition for the gift most useful to the people. As a result, Poseidon decided to defeat everyone with a source of clean water, but the wise Athena created a source of vitamins and other useful compounds in the fruits of the olive tree. Subsequently, they became an indispensable ingredient in cosmetics, medicines, as well as masterpieces of culinary art. And for good reason, because olive oil contains:
- all known vitamins: A, B, C, D, K, E, F;
- macro- and microelements: potassium, iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium;
- unsaturated and saturated fatty acids;
- antioxidants, etc.
Well, the dispute was resolved in favor of Athena, from which the ancient Greeks only benefited. For many years, olives served as the monetary unit of this people and were equated with gold coins. Until now, the welfare of a resident of Greece, Italy or Spain can be estimated by the number of olive trees in the property. This fact really makes one think about what the olive fruits are valuable for and what specific effect they have on the human body.
Interesting facts about olive oil
Among the most powerful arguments in favor of olive oil can be the fact that the inhabitants of the olive homeland are less than other peoples have problems with the cardiovascular system. Not only that, they learned to prevent the formation of cancer cells with the help of olives.
So, the formation of cholesterol plaques and blood clots on the walls of blood vessels is prevented by omega-9 (oleic acid), thereby preventing atherosclerosis, heart disease and vascular ailments.
While studying the properties of olive oil, scientists were interested in its molecular composition, where fatty acids are composed of fairly large molecules. This implies a large number of atoms in their composition, providing a large energy return to the human body. In simple terms, if you use olive oil in the winter, you can never get cold.
An interesting fact is that in natural olive oil a relatively recent discovery of youth hydrocarbon was discovered. We are talking about squalene, the existence of which became a real sensation when it was discovered in long-lived sharks. Based on this useful component, the beauty industry has learned to make cosmetics. However, to replace specialized preparations with easily unrefined olive oil, applying it to the skin of the face and body.
The amazing properties of olives help smokers by neutralizing the harm from nicotine poisoning. Moreover, contributing to the accelerated cell renewal and wound healing, olive oil will protect the lungs from the damaging effects.
The benefits of olive oil for the body
By improving blood circulation with linoleic acid, olive products can affect brain function and nerve cell production. Thus, a person who regularly consumes olive oil will have excellent memory, speed of reactions and coordination of movements.
It has been proven that the fats found in olive oil can replace breast milk for babies. Therefore, this olive product is recommended to be added to babies in the first lure - cereals and mashed potatoes.
What else is the use of olive oil for the human body? The greatest advantage of olives is the ability to cure stomach ulcers. Improvement promises to come within three months after the start of the olive diet. Olives also have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the pancreas, liver and gastrointestinal tract as a whole. Moreover, olive oil prevents the formation of stones in the gallbladder and reduces pain in the presence of a particular illness of the body.
With the help of olive trees, they even learned to cope with diseases in the oral cavity, including periodontal disease. To do this, just brush your teeth with olive oil and rub it into the surface of the gums.
The main thing is not to harm
As the main principle of medicine says, the main thing is not to harm. And to harm your health in the case of olive oil is possible only in two cases:
- purchasing a low-quality product;
- consuming it in unlimited quantities.
How to take olive oil? The product will bring benefits with a reasonable approach to its use. The experts determined the norm of no more than 2-3 tablespoons of this product per day. If you use a larger amount, then this can lead to weight gain, at least.
Before taking olive oil, the benefits and harms must be studied and discussed with a specialist. A contraindication to the use of this product may also be its individual intolerance or the presence of gallstone disease.
In addition to all the inhabitants of our vast country, it is better not to give up native sunflower oil completely.
Well, of course, no one is safe from the purchase of a low-quality product, therefore, its selection and storage should be approached responsibly. Especially if with the help of olive oil you are going to improve your health.
What manufacturers are silent about
Before taking olive oil, the benefits and harms to the body, of course, are worth exploring. And, in addition, you must purchase a quality product. It is worth noting that the following countries are the largest suppliers of olive oil: Greece, Italy and Spain. They supply us with various varieties and types of olive oil, which are not always so natural and healthy. In order to use olive oil with confidence, you need to understand a little about the processes of its production. Its technological capabilities allow producing three types of olive oil:
It is such a product that is most useful, since during the production of olive oil is not subject to heat treatment or the addition of chemicals. This product is not cheap, but cannot be stored for long. It is possible to determine the belonging of olive oil to this category by the composition of fatty acids - their amount should not exceed 1%.
This oil is obtained during the second cold pressing, respectively. It also does not contain chemicals, but inferior to its "first" brother in quality characteristics: taste, smell, color.
This category of olive oil is divided in turn into 3 types, according to the technological features of production:
- Oilcake is made from a substrate, heat-treated and a whole list of chemical solvents is added to it. For example, gasoline and hexane. This product is not capable of providing any benefit. Its use is common in the production of mayonnaise and sauces, where they are silent about the details of the production of second-rate oil.
- If the oil bottle is marked Pure olive oil, then be prepared that this type of product is carried out using a similar technology with oil cake, with the exception of some technological features.
- Finally, the Pomace oil label indicates that this oil is intended for the manufacture of creams, soaps, balms or cosmetics. However, this is similar to chemical extraction, which has little to do with the useful product.
Rules for choosing olive oil
Those who have long turned their attention to such a useful product as olive oil probably know that refined, that is, refined, bleached and deodorized oil cannot have the beneficial effect claimed by experts. Therefore, when purchasing this product, you should be guided by the following rules:
- To use an olive product as a salad dressing, cosmetic, or nutritional supplement, you need to purchase only unrefined oil.
- The cost of natural olive oil is quite high, since a producer can collect only 8 kilograms of fruit from one olive tree, from which only 1.5 liters of the final product are obtained.
- Real unrefined olive oil has a greenish tint, pungent olives and a slightly bitter aftertaste. At the bottom of the bottle you can see a small precipitate.
- Look carefully at the product label. The above markings indicate a low-quality product, but the inscriptions Bio or Organic, on the contrary, promise naturalness and the absence of chemicals, as well as genetically modified raw materials.
Finally, if you intend to use olive oil for frying, then in this case it is better to give preference to a refined product that does not have a pronounced smell and taste.
As noted in the reviews by numerous consumers, when storing olive oil, it should be protected from sunlight and bright light. That is why the product is most often bottled in dark glass. You should not store the olive product in the refrigerator, as in this case it will lose its beneficial properties. The optimum storage temperature is not higher than 12 degrees.
Fasting olive oil: benefits and harms
In many open sources, you can read that the most effective way of the beneficial effects of olive oil on the body is to take it on an empty stomach, that is, 15 minutes before a meal. Why did the experts think so?
Due to the fact that the olive product is a choleretic agent, it is the first to enter our body that it prepares the gastrointestinal tract for digesting food, thus triggering the choleretic process. After all, it is bile that helps with the greatest efficiency to break down consumed foods. Especially if you drink olive oil with lemon juice. What can go wrong in this case, you ask?
In the presence of gallstone disease, olive oil can provoke the movement of stones towards the canals, which will lead the consumer to a hospital bed with a diagnosis of biliary colic.
In addition, in combination with lemon, an olive product can provoke a severe upset stomach, in other words, diarrhea.
However, according to reviews of the benefits and harms of olive oil, cases of such consequences are quite rare, especially if your use of olive oil is reduced to a useful minimum. Plus, the treatment of each individual disease requires an individual approach.
Olive Health Recipes
In order to bring olive oil on an empty stomach, people recommend using the tips below in reviews. After all, each individual case of a disease or prevention has its own secrets of using an olive product.
- Due to the fact that olive oil cleanses the liver and removes cholesterol, consumers often resort to cleansing the body with an olive diet. To do this, the oil and lemon juice are mixed in equal amounts (150 ml each) and consumed every 15 minutes for 1 day. But the day before, you should refuse fatty and protein foods, and 6 hours before the start of the procedure, it is better to make an enema. There is another - a more gentle way to cleanse the liver - drinking 1 cup of tomato juice with 1 tablespoon of olive oil daily before breakfast.
- In order to cure gastritis, experts recommend drinking a glass of purified water daily in the morning, then, after 20 minutes, a tablespoon of olive oil, and after another 30 minutes, start breakfast. The course of such therapy cannot be continued for more than 3 months. But peptic ulcer helps to cure olive oil in the morning on an empty stomach (we have already discussed the benefits of consuming this product), mixed with aloe juice and honey.
- You must follow the recipes for pancreatitis very carefully, since olive oil with this diagnosis can be used only 30 days after remission and in an amount not exceeding 1 tablespoon per day.
- Many in their reviews of the benefits of olive oil note that a tablespoon of the product consumed on an empty stomach 20-30 minutes before a meal will help to cleanse the intestines and forget about constipation.
- Without fail, many recommend using olive oil for thrombosis and varicose veins. An oil product is able to thin the blood and rid blood vessels of blood clots and plaques. Fasting oil intake can be supplemented by rubbing into the affected area of the vessel.
Olives guard the beauty
However, a magical olive remedy is able to improve the condition of the human body not only from the inside. With the help of oil, you can significantly improve the appearance of your hair, face, and nails. If you are going to deal with this very issue of your health and beauty, use olive oil in a complex way, that is, both inside and as a means for external use.
- Due to the property of cell renewal, olive oil heals wounds and burns well. It can be rubbed directly into the affected area of the skin or take warm baths with the addition of 4-5 tablespoons of olive oil.
- In addition to healing, the olive product can have a beneficial effect on the skin of the face and body, it will eliminate cellulite, nourish and moisturize dry skin of the face, protect it from ultraviolet rays, heal cracks on the lips, and eliminate wrinkles and age spots. It is enough to cleanse the skin of the face and body, and then apply olive oil as a mask for 10-15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
- Those who suffer from hair loss, split ends or naughty strands should undergo complex procedures daily with olive oil. It is rubbed into the hair roots or applied as a mask over the entire length for no more than 15 minutes. Oil can be mixed with other healthy foods. For example, with a banana, egg yolk or lavender oil, as well as burdock oil.
- To strengthen the nail plate and get rid of its delamination, rub the olive oil into the surface of the nail or make special baths with sea salt, cosmetic additives and olive oil.
After such complex therapy, your hair will be soft and shiny, your nails will be strong, and your skin will begin to shine with youth.
Draw conclusions
We have analyzed the benefits and harms of the body of olive oil. In conclusion, I would like to give one interesting story, how 90-year-old Frenchwoman J. Kalman sold her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer. The terms of the contract were simple - the buyer undertook to pay the elderly landlord a monthly amount of money, as if he had purchased an apartment in a mortgage for 10 years. How could this far from old man have thought that he would pay the agreed amount for another 30 years and would not live to see the moment when he entered into ownership of the apartment. After the death of a lawyer, a grieving widow paid the debt for another 2 years. As a result, the Frenchwoman went into another world in 122 years, which set a world record for longevity. But not all of these events are the most interesting, but the fact that the elderly lady did not at all adhere to a healthy lifestyle and quit smoking, for example, just a few years before her death. When Jeanne Kalman was asked how she managed to live so long, she referred to the high consumption of port, chocolate and olive oil.
What can I say?Perhaps a panacea for all diseases has long existed, and scientists are puzzling in vain over the technological process? At least it’s worth trying a miracle cure from olive.