Subject: Re: Olive Oil?

[Guest guest]

Hi Maco:

Just for reference ........... the following link indicates that

olive oil consumption in Crete averages, for every man woman and

child on the island, thirty-five litres a year. (Thirty kilograms

divided by a S.G. averaging about 0.86).

That is the average. Difficult to believe I know. The reason it is

so high is that much of the produce grown on the island is preserved

in olive oil for eating off-season. And when the food is eaten the

olive oil is eaten with it.

Those dying from CVD were the ones who had consumed appreciably more

than the average. So I do not think that using a little olive oil

occasionally need be any cause for concern. I hope not, because

knowing this I still use it in small quantities!

http://www.sfakia-crete.com/sfakia-crete/olive.html

Rodney.

--- In , " M " <mstewarthm@e...>

wrote:

> Message: 10

> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 04:35:44 -0000

> From: " Rodney " <perspect1111@y...>

> Subject: Re: Olive Oil?

>

> Hi folks:

>

> I would like to add to what Jeff has said below that the recent

study

> done in Crete posted here a couple of months ago appears to show

that

> **OLIVE OIL IS ATHEROGENIC**. The study found that the elderly

> people currently dying of CVD in Crete are those among the

population

> who had eaten the largest amounts of monounsaturated fats.

>

> This seems to imply that the studies done in north America showing

> apparent benefits of monounsaturated oils are merely indicating

that

> they are less atherogenic than the dreadful stuff that is consumed

by

> a large proportion of the north American population. NOT that they

> are beneficial in an absolute sense.

>

> --Uggh. Why couldn't I have read this _before_ my Friday evening

trip to

> Sam's Club?

>

> --Sigh . . . .

>

> Maco