5 Reasons Why Olive Oil Is Healthy

Great article and very informative. I do all the cooking at home and use olive oil a lot. I would have to take issue with your comment not to use it in cooking. Every food network show and most cooking shows I watch all use it. They will use other types of oil for frying like corn oil, peanut oil and Canola where they need temperatures hotter than normal. You might want to recheck that part of your article.

I love olive oil and use it to cook with often. It’s interesting that they are bitter when eaten right off the tree. Is this why they are so salty out of the jar? Brining? My problem with olives is that once I get started eating them, I can’t stop. I love every kind of olive there is and have tried just about all of them.

I love that they have so many healthy benefits and this gives me an excuse to eat to my heart’s content! 🙂

Thank you for spotlighting the olive and it’s many healthy attributes!

Wow, I knew olives were good for you, but I had no idea how good! I will be definitely implementing them even more so in my diet. Beside eating olives, what do you feel has been the best way to add olives/olive oil to your diet?

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated.

Jason

Hi Tom,
What a lot of great information on Olives and oil. The pictures are really cool and made me want to go grab a handful to munch on. I really like to add them to my salads because of the variety of taste they bring to the mix. I’m glad you mentioned coconut oil too. That stuff is awesome!! The oleic acid in them is a great for processing proteins too. To your health!
Rick

I used olive oil all through my pregnancy, and luckily ended up with no stretch marks! I alternate putting olive oil and coconut oil on my daughters hair. She is of mixed race and it gets frizzy but the olive oil takes care of that. I hate the idea of putting chemicals on her skin or hair. I do have one question though. How does one determine a good quality olive oil?

Hi Tom,

I really enjoyed reading your article on olive oil. I know that it has a lot of health benefits, and I love eating food with olive oil such as vegetable salad. It is true, it really works in my body. Though I am skinny, I have a strong immune system and I do not easily get sick, especially during the winter or extreme hot summers. I truly believe this is because of my consumption of olive oil.

I was also interested in the fact that olive oil is an antioxidant. In our everyday life we sometimes eat a variety of food, especially processed food. I believe that olive oil is a great help when it comes to cleansing our body from toxins caused by these processed foods.

Thanks for this very informative article.

Marcy

Hi Tom.
Your post on the Olive fruit and oil is very informative. I learned a lot about Olives that I didn’t know before. One of the question about Olives that is still lingering for me is cooking with Olive oil.

When my wife and I go to the supermarket we see too types of olive oil, one for cooking and one for salad. I’m under the impression that the one for cooking went through some kind of process that reduced the negative effect Olive oil would have on the body when heated.

Could you expand on this a little?

Love your post. See you around.
Eric

Hi Tom,
Well I’m sold, I want to eat olive oil everyday.
Thank you for this very informative post, I think there is a health epidemic going on.
We all need to take care of our bodies and this is a great step to start taking to do that.
If everyone removed one unhealthy fat from their diet and replaced it with one healthy fat like olive oil, it would make a big difference.
Randy

Intresting stuff! I have known for a long time that olive oil is healthy and I used to take at least 2 shots of it everyday. Guess I have to start doing it again. I did not know it contains polyphenols? Polypehenols can also be found in green tea and it is belived by alot of scientists that it can prevent and even cure cancer. Thanks for sharing!

John

The healthy benefits of olive oil are well documented as your point out. However, there are two concerns I have with olive oil.

The first concern is that much of the so-called olive oil on the market is not olive oil at all. It is actually an inferior oil and falsely labeled as olive oil.

How do you know if you’re getting the good stuff?

My other concern is that although olive oil is beneficial, it is still a fat and fats are very calorie dense. How much olive oil is the right amount to consume to get the benefits without getting the fattening effect of oil?

Hey Tom, another great article.
I’m of Italian descent and I grew up on olive oil, it flows through my veins.
My wife and I have cut way back on our use of olive oil for salads, and we never use it for cooking anymore. There is no oil in our homemade salad dressing. We use EVOO more as an accent or finishing oil on some dishes.

For cooking, we had planned to try coconut oil, but once we tried Ghee for cooking we stopped looking. I’ve even done an article on my website about the benefits of Ghee, check it out.

Phil

Hi Tom, this is a really nice article… I know that olive oil is very healthy but I didn’t really know that it’s not good to use it for cooking! I’ve never heard about it… Luckily I don’t use it for cooking so much.. I am using rapeseed oil but I want to replace it with coconut oil anyway.. I love the taste of olive oil in my salad but it must be extra virgin cold pressed olive oil 🙂

Hi Tom-
I have known about the cardiovascular, blood pressure and antioxidant benefits from using olive oil but the rest of the information in your post is new to me so thank you! I would like to clarify that the benefits to skin and hair are from consuming olives? Are there benefits that you are aware of in applying olives and it’s oil directly to the skin and hair? You also mention that olive oil should not be used to cook with – I love to drizzle olive oil on vegetables and then roast them. Should I stop doing this?? Since I have significant lung disease, I am most interested in your comment about respiratory support from olives. Thanks for the great post!

Erin

Hi Tom

Wow I never knew there was so many uses for Olive Oil besides cooking with it. The beauty tips you mentioned are definetly something I am going to try today. Given olives are natural I imagine I will get better results than the chemically made products I currently use! Excellent reading.

Kind Regards

Michelle

Hi Tom, it is a pleasure to read this article. Recently there is almost a hysteria about various types of oils, some very exotic. But olive oil remains one of the most important oils.

I did not know that Spain is the number one producer. I have seen them in Gethsemane garden in Jerusalem, they claim to be from the time of Christ and I can tell you they look like thousands of years old. So thank you, it was really interesting to read your text.

Jovo