Re: Deanna, olive oil

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Mike-

>I can see coconut and CLO, which are special, medicinal

>foods, but what are the benefits of olive oil you refer to? In my

>understanding, it's a mediocre, filler food even in its highest

>quality forms. Of course, the great comedy of olive oil is how many

>millions of people eat a ton of low-grade crap but smugly believe

>they're getting good stuff or that it's some kind of special health

>food.

I quite agree, but some recipes require the flavor of olive oil as opposed

to butter or lard or CO, and it's not like small quantities of good olive

oil are harmful, so I always keep some Bariani around. My fat-phobic and

sat-fat-super-phobic girlfriend uses far more of it than I do, though.

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[Guest guest]

Pratick-

>Why do you say this about olive oil?

>

>Not that I have anything on the contrary to prove, but I have never liked

>the taste or

>smell of olive oil, so I would like to see some ideas about why it is not

>as good as it

>is supposed to be.

>Can you post some info or links?

Simple enough -- and I expect my answer is very much what Mike would

say. Olive oil is mostly monounsaturated, with a not-insignificant

polyunsaturated fraction. Unlike coconut oil, it has no beneficial

metabolic effect, and might even have a slight negative effect on the

metabolism due to its low level of saturation. Unlike good animal fats,

it's not a significant source of most fat-soluble vitamins. Very

high-quality truly virgin olive oils (like Bariani) due have some genuine

nutritional value, but not enough to recommend them as a staple of the diet

except as a relative improvement over most other vegetable oils.

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[Guest guest]

[Pratick]Why do you say this about olive oil?

[] Simple enough -- and I expect my answer is very much what Mike

would say.

[Catz] And to that I add that olive oil actually is drying instead of

moisturizing, leeching the moisture right out of your body. Sometimes

simple language is more convincing than technical, heh?

[Guest guest]

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>[Catz] And to that I add that olive oil actually is drying instead of

>moisturizing, leeching the moisture right out of your body. Sometimes

>simple language is more convincing than technical, heh?

The language may be simple, but I don't know what it means or why it should

be so. It sounds like an Aajonism, and while Aajonus has done some good

things, he's very, very far from the first person I'd trust to make dietary

judgements for me.

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