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Article: PEOPLE DISCOVERING HEALTHY BENEFITS OF USING OLIVE OIL
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
- Article date:
- January 3, 2000
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CHEYENNE -- Making a conscious choice to try to eat healthier was
one reason Carol Rumann decided to integrate olive oil into her
family's diet.
"I think it's healthier than other oils," Rumann said. "We use it
all the time now."
A number of health studies conducted in recent years back up
Rumann's opinion about olive oil, finding it helps protect people
from cancers and heart disease.
"New research continues to point to a myriad of ways that the
monounsaturated fat and other minor constituents found in olive oil
have substantial health attributes," said Dr. Barbara Levine,
director of the Nutritional Information Center at the New York
Hospital-Cornell Medical Center.
Monounsaturated fats ...