OLIVE OIL MAY HELP KEEP BLOOD CLOT-FREE
Eating foods prepared with olive oils that are rich in phenols, substances thought to have beneficial effects on the heart, may help ward off harmful blood clots in people with high cholesterol, Spanish researchers report. “Our findings provide new evidence of the healthy effects of virgin olive oil,” Dr. Francisco Perez-
Jimenez of Reina Sofia University Hospital in Cordoba and colleagues conclude. In the early stages of atherosclerosis, the balance between clot-promoting and clot-dissolving factors in the blood vessels shifts in favour of clot formation and having high levels of fat in the blood can worsen this imbalance,” Perez-Jimenez and his team explain the August issue of the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition. Olive oil contains phenols, which have been shown to fight clotting in lab tests, but few studies of their effects have been performed in humans, the researchers note. To investigate, the researchers had 21 people with high cholesterol eat two different breakfast. For one week, they consumed either white bread with virgin olive oil containing 400 parts per million phenols, or white bread with olive oil from which much of the phenols had been extracted, leaving it with 80 parts per million.
Study participants were then switched to the opposite meal. Two hours after the high-phenols meal, study participants concentrations of factor VII antigen, which promotes blood clotting, were lower compared with the low-phenol group. The high-phensol group also experienced a greater drop in the activity of another clot promoter, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.
Olive oil has been found to be good for brain development and bone growth especially in children. It also improves metabolism to a great extent. It is very rich in vitamin E which is an ideal vitamin for people of older age.
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