I am sure you lot are all familiar with these greek foods "the Omegas" I call them in my book.
1.So it seems walnuts are what peanut butter should be made from and it should still be called peanut butter to avoid descrimination and arguments.
Because I have an olive grove on my estae in Portugal and declare a vestered interest in their promotion (Lesser are you listening to this, olive oil... Meditereanian diet) I looked up olive oil and this is what I found....
"Olive oil is in fact, low in linoleic acid with an average of 10 percent of fats coming from this particular fatty acid. For this reason it is recommended for cooking since it helps keep a balanced ratio of the two fatty acids: omega-6 and omega-3
So although we know Omega 3 good, Omega 6 bad, it is maintaining the correct balance between the two. However, Dr Esselstyn disagrees and says "no oil". Need to send the mafia to see him, as they run the olive oil business.
Be interested to hear what other think, have found out, or think they have found out.
Next I would like to talk about wine, as I have vinyard too.....plug plug.
By the way my house in Portugal cost Eur41k........its currently 25c and sunny.
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I would love to live in Portugal, is the health care system good ? I used to be all for our NHS, but since my experiences from May and still ongoing are so poor lack of funding, long waiting times and over worked staff ..... I’m beginning to wonder!
Dont wonder...just do it, come out for a look in the spring. It is cheap to live, people are nice, good food, good quality of life, relaxing, weather unbeatable. As for health care, it is good, you have to pay a little a few Euros to see a doctor, but you save a lot more in lower living costs.
We live in central Portugal, I cannot speak for the afluent Algarve, would live there myself.
That’s very kind of you, yes we have visited the Algarve a number of times and it is beautiful but obviously more expensive. I have retired and my husband is still working a few days a week, we were just planning what to do when I was hit by a series of problems, but when I get to the bottom of them we will resume our plans . And then there’s Brexit...........
Yes, plans change when health matter dictate, we were rolling merrily along planning the next 20 years and then...well no use crying over spilt milk. We are still lucky with the way things turned out.
The Euro was based on the German Mark. I remember travelling to Germany and getting 11DM for 1GBP. By early November I can see it being parity unless the current mess is sorted!
You mean the guy who has stuck to his principals, which 52% of Brits share (more now), while 70% of politcians have ditched theirs? We could do with more "clowns" like him.
I imagine would consider ourselves Remainers rather than the derogatory term you used. I am surprised you favour a Mad Max style dystopia considering you live on two continents!
’Auslanders’ is a loaded term leaning toward racism. I think you need more heart. 😀 I also think you need to find a nice right wing bubble somewhere for you to spout this nonsense. And that isn’t here.
I am still trying to get my head around why Esselstyn thinks (knows) olive oil is as bad as the others. There is no refining of this oil, they just sqeeze the oil out and olives are a fruit from a tree where no chemicals are used (as far as I know). I heard cooking at high temperatures is bad, but maybe someone can explain it to me why it's use on salads is bad.
Thank you for posting. I have cooked with olive oil for years. Portugal sounds great. I didn't know property was so reasonable. Is it still cheap? The climate unfortunately would not suit me. I have a myocardial bridge. High temperatures make me feel very unwell. When I was younger, I was a sun worshipper. I wish you well. It sounds like a little bit of heaven on earth.
Esselstyn was wrong about olive oil. In a recent meta analysis of 30 intervention trials using olive oil and published in the national center for biotechnology information, olive oil was found to increase levels of HDL cholesterol and reduce levels of inflammation in the subjects taking part in the trials.
Improvement in 2 important cardiovascular risk factors I believe.
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Reducing cholesterol through diet....
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