More Promising News On Olive Oil And The Prevention Of Heart Disease

NaturalSociety | August 25 2012

Exciting research out of Spain indicates just how olive oil may aid in the prevention of heart disease. While the link between this flavorful and versatile oil and heart disease were established some time ago, now we are learning exactly how it can prevent heart disease.

Olive Oil and the Prevention of Heart Disease

According to their study, olive oil actually works at the genetic level, turning off the genes associated with heart disease.

Scientists at the Institut Municipal d’Investigacio Medica used three groups—one which followed a typical Mediterranean-style diet, rich in whole grains, fresh produce and virgin olive oil. The second group had a similar diet, but used a lower grade of olive oil. The third group followed their regular diet.

The group using the virgin olive oil “showed improvement” in those genes related to heart disease and hardening of the arteries, or atherosclerosis.

The difference between “olive oil” and “virgin olive oil” as used in the study is that the higher grade virgin olive oil has more polyphenols—antioxidants that provide a wealth of health benefits. Even better than virgin olive oil is extra virgin olive oil, containing more phenols, a richer taste, and lower acidity. Extra virgin olive oil for health-related purposes is the ideal choice, even for the prevention of heart disease.

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Jeff Nielson ~ Iceland Was Right, We Were Wrong: The IMF

The Street | August 15 2012 | Thanks, Thomas

VANCOUVER (Silver Gold Bull) — For approximately three years, our governments, the banking cabal, and the Corporate Media have assured us that they knew the appropriate approach for fixing the economies that they had previously crippled with their own mismanagement. We were told that the key was to stomp on the Little People with “austerity” in order to continue making full interest payments to the Bond Parasites — at any/all costs.

Following three years of this continuous, uninterrupted failure, Greece has already defaulted on 75% of its debts, and its economy is totally destroyed. The UK, Spain and Italy are all plummeting downward in suicide-spirals, where the more austerity these sadistic governments inflict upon their own people theworse their debt/deficit problems get. Ireland and Portugal are nearly in the same position.

Now in what may be the greatest economic “mea culpa” in history, we have the media admitting that this government/banking/propaganda-machine troika has been wrong all along. They have been forced to acknowledge that Iceland’s approach to economic triage was the correct approach right from the beginning.

What was Iceland’s approach? To do the exact opposite of everything the bankers running our own economies told us to do. The bankers (naturally) told us that we needed to bail out the criminal Big Banks, at taxpayer expense (they were Too Big To Fail). Iceland gave the banksters nothing.

The bankers told us that no amount of suffering (for the Little People) was too great in order to make sure that the Bond Parasites got paid at 100 cents on the dollar. Iceland told the Bond Parasites they would get what was left over, after the people had been taken care of (by their own government).

The bankers told us that our governments could no longer afford the same education, health care and pension systems which our parents had taken for granted. Iceland told the bankers that what the country could no longer afford was to continue to be blood-sucked by the worst financial criminals in the history of our species. Now, after three-plus years of this absolute dichotomy in economic policymaking, a clear picture has emerged (despite the best efforts of the propaganda machine to hide the truth).

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