Olive Oil

So far I've had it on stirfry veg with soy sauce (added after cooking obviously), on cooked spaghetti, and making up a dressing for salad

I'm hugely sensitive to olive oil - my stomach always tells me when I've eaten some, even if my taste buds were unaware. [Dh "forgets" and uses it sometimes to cook with, as he loves the taste.]
Also - taking advice from another doctor on tv - I am fasting [nothing but water] twice a week to ward off Type 2 Diabetes!
I'll let you know if that works.
I am definitely losing weight because of the fasting. And, contrary to my expectations, I seem to eat a little less than usual on the days after fasting days...

the very best olive oil which tends to be very expensive is wonderful - like champagne, and dipping in it a fabulous wholemeal bread fresh from the boulangerie is just bliss. That's why we all live in Southern Europe.

I eat a lot of olives and wonder if they have the same effects?

i decided to give this a try as don't think it cause me any harm so tired a dessert spoon full straight off the spoon and found it ok. to take, suppose that's comes from taking codliver oil straight off the spoon when i was a child as i was brought up on a spoonful a day. so will carry one with this, also may i add iam also doing w w smartpoints and two table spoons of oil is 6 smartpoints. if anyone else is trying to loose weigh

It was actually 2 desert spoons not tablespoons!!

Sorry Geordie, that was my fault confusing everyone ( hides blushes ?)

I use lots of olive oil, cooked and raw but I never fry with it. It's wonderful drizzled over all veg, cooked or raw, mashed potatoes soups, on pasta. When I had my 60 year MOT my cholesterol was very low and lots of good cholesterol. I spend as much as I can afford on it and stock up when it's on special offer, which saves a bundle. I love it, but don't measure how much I consume, just little and often. I am not over weight but wouldn't mind losing a couple of pounds and know I can do that by cutting back on the sweet stuff which I am a little too fond of. I have never tried in my porridge but will do so tomorrow.

For the last three days, I've just poured the required amount of olive oil onto my toast at breakfast time, before spreading on my usual cheese spread. To my surprise, it tasted delicious. However, aware that I was adding extra calories by doing this, I didn't bother with the cheese spread today and discovered that I actually like my toast with just olive oil on it. Who would have believed it!!!

DH just out of hospital with heart attack and to be fair they haven't men tioned olive oil but have mentioned omega 3 so we are having oily fish every third day now. We have always eaten fish about every third day but I am ensuring it is now Salmon, herring, mackerel or tuna etc.

I eat fish till it's coming out of my ears, as I do not eat red meat. I do all the right things to lower cholesterol but it is still high. I am normal weight. Doc says it is inherited tendency to make too much - but I am not on statins as I am just inside the high risk category. So I am happy to try the olive oil trick and see what it does.

Toast and olive oil is yummy and if you rub a clove of garlic over the toast too even better, known as Bruschetta in Italy.

Yes I think that is true luck As my DS said "it is all to do with the cards you are dealt with" But you have to try don't you?

I agree with JessM....... I am fairly certain it was 20ml = 2 teaspoons??

1 teaspoon = 5 ml
2 teaspoons = 1 dessertspoon
3 teaspoons = 1 tablespoon

Luckygirl the reason it's not already recommended for everyone is that the markers were only recently discovered by scientists at Glasgow university and that's who was running the trial for the programme. It will have to go through the necessary steps to become official advice from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence).

I use extra virgin olive oil all the time. On jacket potatoes instead of butter, in mashed potatoes, over veg, even on chips sometimes. dip bread in it. all delicious.

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•Improves Nail Health
•Helps Prevent Diabetes
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•Strengthens Bones