Benefits of olive oil

Butter, margarine and olive oil: which is more fattening, according to the OCU The consumption of butter, margarine and olive oil is usually looked at with a magnifying glass, but the OCU defends that what should be paid attention to is its composition and benefits....

Efficacy of gels based on extra virgin olive oil to treat the skin in patients with a digestive stoma Tests conducted as part of a pilot study show that these cosmetics are more effective in maintaining skin integrity in these patients than products commonly used for...

Squalene in olive oil Research conducted by the University of Zaragoza in a porcine model shows the power of olive oil derivatives in the control of fatty liver, an increasingly common pathology in humans. The result of the work, in which the University of Zaragoza,...

The benefits of olive oil against endometriosis The director of the Illes Balears Health Research Institute, Sergio Camacho, and the president of the Protected Designation of Origin Oli de Mallorca, Joan Mayol, have signed a collaboration agreement whereby the...

Olive oil, natural food against cancer As early as the 16th century, the classic "Compendium of Materia Medica" of Chinese medicine compiled by Li Shizhen, a Ming dynasty medical scientist , already pointed out that olives "produce body fluids, turn off polydipsia,...

Olive oil to age more slowly Extra virgin olive oil could help age slower and better. To this conclusion came a study carried out by Giorgio D'Andrea, a young researcher at the Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology of the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome....