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Article: New Reasons to Love Olive Oil
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- Vegetarian Times
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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It may be as good for your skin, pearls and garden tools as it is for your heart and your salads
Ever since Vito Corleone imported those gleaming barrels from his native Sicily, all Americans have slowly been learning to love olive oil. One wonders what took us so long. Ten thousand years ago, Homer called olive oil "liquid gold," an opinion shared by Israel's King David, who ordered guards to watch it day and night. Hippocrates, 500 years later, called olive oil the "great therapeutic," an early assessment that scientific research increasingly supports.
In ancient Greece, where cutting down an olive tree was punishable by death, healers used the oil to treat wounds, aid in digestion and ...