Olive oil benefits

Recent studies have shown that the right variety of foods may reduce the risk of cardio-vascular illness. Mediterranean diet foods, such as olive oil, cereals and fruits are essential to the hearth illness preservation.
According to the study of a Spanish university in Cordoba, phenols, micronutrients in which is rich the extravirgin Italian olive oil, have the ability to counteract the genes responsible for body inflammatory processes, contributing thereby to a sort of prevention of cardiovascular disease.
Professor Francisco Perez-Jimenez, head of the researchers team, conducted a study on a sample of twenty patients with metabolic syndrome, also said as insulin resistance syndrome. This special clinical condition carries a high cardiovascular risk, linked to a range of risk factors closely related to a sedentary lifestyle or pathological conditions such as obesity or high levels of blood cholesterol.
To twenty volunteers were asked to make a breakfast rich in extra virgin olive oil, removing for six weeks all medicines and vitamins.
At the end of the experiment, have been identified 98 different genes which engage in greater or lesser extent on the amount of phenol employed.
In addition to the goodness and wholesomeness this is another reason to enjoy the Italian extra-virgin olive oil!