Olive oil may reduce your risk of disease and death, study finds

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Using olive oil instead of margarine, butter or other saturated fats may protect you from dying from cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, dementia, and other conditions. 9News

Using olive oil instead of margarine, butter or other saturated fats may protect you from dying from cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, dementia, and other conditions, a Harvard University study has found.

"The takeaway is to use olive oil every time you can as a substitute for saturated fats when you're cooking or in your salad dressings," Dr LeWine said, who was not involved in the study. "Previous studies were conducted in Mediterranean and European populations where the consumption of olive oil tends to be higher.

People who reported eating the highest levels of olive oil had a 19 per cent lower risk of dying from heart conditions, a 17 per cent lower risk of dying from cancer, a 29 per cent lower risk of dying from neurodegenerative disease, and an 18 per cent lower risk of dying from respiratory disease mortality compared with those who never or rarely consumed olive oil in place of saturated fats, said Susanna Larsson, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, in...

 

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Great! I’ll just go buy some fancy cookware that I come to find will be ruined if I use olive oil and will only be “ok” if I use all the oils that kill me! Yay!

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