How many times have you heard that it’s better to get nutrients from food than from supplements? We completely agree! The problem is it’s hard to find real, unprocessed, unadulterated food grown in healthy soils, harvested at its peak and quickly delivered to your table. That’s why the National Academy of Sciences says supplements are necessary. But when real food is available, there’s nothing like it, and we recommend grabbing it with both hands. That’s especially so with a super-nutritious food like olive oil. Real, extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO), unrefined and made from premium quality olives, contains more than a hundred different polyphenols, vitamins and other compounds that protect and repair the body as well as act as anti-inflammatories and antioxidants. But real EVOO is rare! Philip James, a leading nutrition researcher in Great Britain, is a proponent of the Mediterranean Diet, which, you’ve no doubt heard, is one of the healthiest diets in the world. The Mediterra…

Worth its weight in goldA good olive oil has fantastic health benefits that make it unique and worth its weight in gold.The story begins in 1957, when scientist Ancel Keys discovered that people living on the island of Crete, in the Mediterranean Sea, had longer lives than any other European population. Even more exciting, their lives were relatively free from chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, age-related cognitive decline, arthritis, and osteoporosis. Keys believed the secret to this robust health lay in what he called "the Mediterranean Diet." A diet high in fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and omega 3 fats from fish, the Mediterranean Diet's centerpiece was pure, unrefined olive oil -- lots of it! In fact 35-40% of the calories in this diet came from healthy olive oil! As valuable as the rest of the Mediterranean diet was, it's since been determined that olive oil accounted for the lion's share of the diet's health benefits.Thousands of studie…