Olive Oil is not exactly MUFA

[Guest guest]

Well, what I mean is that I have read several studies (I'll try to

give you the references) where they fed rats (in some of them) and

men (in other ones) with refined olive oil, extra virgin olive oil,

and other different sources of MUFA, and they just found that the

thing protecting arteries and preventing cholesterol to oxidize was

the *extra* compounds (phenols, antioxidants...) in the evoo apart

from its FA profile. Yes, there was not MUFA, but the other stuff

extracted from the olives when the oil was not refined what was doing

the good work (preventing arteries from estretching and stiffing

after meals, helping NO2 to be produced in blood, cleaning

cholesterol from arterie's walls to the liver...).

Willie

[Guest guest]

Hi Willie:

Then are you saying you think the people in Crete who eat the most

olive oil only eat the 'nasty refined' olive oils?

I wouldn't have guessed that was the case. Nor, probably, would

those who advocate Crete as the epitome of the Mediterranean Diet.

My GUESS is that the beneficial CVD aspects of the Mediterranean Diet

(which seem to be nowhere near as beneficial as the japanese diet)

are a consequence of the fish and wine they consume, and a lower

caloric intake, rather than the oil. But of course I don' know. We

just have to try to make sense of the study results that are

reported, not all of which agree with the others.

Then we place our bets.

Rodney.

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wrote:

>

> Well, what I mean is that I have read several studies (I'll try to

> give you the references) where they fed rats (in some of them) and

> men (in other ones) with refined olive oil, extra virgin olive oil,

> and other different sources of MUFA, and they just found that the

> thing protecting arteries and preventing cholesterol to oxidize was

> the *extra* compounds (phenols, antioxidants...) in the evoo apart

> from its FA profile. Yes, there was not MUFA, but the other stuff

> extracted from the olives when the oil was not refined what was

doing

> the good work (preventing arteries from estretching and stiffing

> after meals, helping NO2 to be produced in blood, cleaning

> cholesterol from arterie's walls to the liver...).

>

> Willie