Boost your immune system with antioxidants, lower your risk for the flu, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more—with ordinary everyday ingredients you can find at home—and make healthy green choices in today's fast-changing world!
From the author of The Healing Powers of Vinegar, a guide to the benefits of olive oil, including heart-healthy comfort food recipes and home cures.
From ancient times to present day, olive oil has been used for everything from health ailments to beauty and the home and so much more. Now evidence shows that a diet based on olive oil can add years to our life and may even prevent some diseases. Health author-journalist Cal Orey has consulted top doctors, olive oil producers, and chefs, getting the most up-to-date information, written in a lively, warm and witty first-person narrative on the many health benefits of olive oil, and other oils, such as coconut, avocado, pumpkin seed, and canola oil.
The wide world of oils teamed with a Mediterranean diet and lifestyle may help in: weight loss, heart health, relieving arthritis aches; inhibiting breast and colon cancer; preventing diabetes; reducing pain; staving off ulcers; and, fighting impaired memory. It also includes dozens of NEW easy and sophisticated comfort superfood delicious recipes that make healing oils a vital part of a long and healthy life!
"A fascinating read—olive oil is not only delicious—it is good medicine!"
—Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, author of The Fat Flush Plan
"One of our most important foods. This book deserves to be in everybody's home library." —Elson M. Haas, MD, author of Staying Healthy with Nutrition, 21st Century Edition