Healthy nutrition is the basic element of preventive medicine. A prudent and, in some cases, personalized diet can effectively combat part of our genetic inheritance. It is prone to diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer or cardiovascular diseases.
Healthy nutrition also plays a role if a person is already sick, says José María Ordovás: The ideologist of nutrigenomics, the science that will facilitate a personalized diet for each individual based on the study of the genome. Ordovás sings his praises scientifically proven benefits olive oil Extra virgin is made without subjecting it to thermal or chemical treatments for extraction. The most bitter and slightly spicy oils are the best oils for health, but this depends on the year and the harvest and progress. Agronomist Víctor Pérez is in the middle of picking green olives from Finca La Torre It produces its award-winning single varieties: arbequina, hojiblanca, cornicabra and picudo, on the same soil in Malaga where this liquid gold has been produced for over 2,000 years.
The oleocanthal in these olives is responsible for the itchy throat.. It is a polyphenol with natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. a devastating anti-cancer effect, According to a scientific study Rutgers University in New Jersey and Hunter College in New York It was published in the journal ‘Molecular and Cellular Oncology’.
Only with oils of excellent quality
This throat-itching molecule is found only in excellent quality extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), obtained after careful and meticulous production. “It is important to note that oleocanthal is very sensitive to decomposition Pérez, who recommends that this oil be consumed within 12 months at most after being extracted in the oil mill, warns “due to exposure to oxygen and light.” The oil does not expire, but its beneficial properties are lost due to oxidation. every week that passes.
This summer’s lack of rain and stifling heat will reduce olive production by up to 52 percent this season and keep olive oil prices high, but Víctor Pérez continues to bury cow horns pointing to the sky to capture cosmic energy at La Finca La Torre in Antequera (Malaga) and we produce one of the best extra virgin olive oils (EVOO) in the world. “Everything is done here taking into account the lunar calendar,” he explains, surrounded by olive trees on a 380-hectare plot from which the Romans had already extracted the precious liquid.
From the centuries-old olive trees and other young people on the site A green and delicious juice comes out It is full of beneficial polyphenols.
This type of extra virgin oil includes: antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients Strengthens the immune system, reduces bad cholesterol, fights free radicals, prevent premature aging and delay or stop mental deterioration It is linked to diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Monounsaturated fats and oleic acid It is a balm against heart diseases.
Olive oil also makes it easier prevents the transformation of food and the absorption of fats and harmful sugars.
Spooned (three a day is recommended), in salads or with bread, extra virgin olive oil is the best ally for health and beauty, It is a typical Spanish natural product, says Borja Adrián, salesperson of the brand, which is very worried about drought. Coming from a region where there has been almost no rain for three years, this situation caused the fruit harvest to be brought forward by two months.