Olive Oil Might Be the Best Thing in Your Kitchen After 60
I used to think olive oil was just something you drizzled on salad to make it taste better. A nice-to-have. Something food magazines talked about when they wanted to sound sophisticated. Then I started paying attention to the research. And to the people I knew who were ageing remarkably well. Clear-minded, energetic, and surprisingly healthy despite being in their seventies and eighties. A surprising number of them had one thing in common: they used olive oil liberally, not as a supplement or a medicine, but as a staple. The fat they cooked with, dressed their food with, and relied on daily. Turns out, there might be something to this. Let me tell you what I've learnt about olive oil and why it matters more after sixty than at any other time in your life. The Mediterranean Secret That's Not Really a Secret People in Mediterranean regions, Greece, Italy, and Spain, live longer and stay healthier than most of the Western world. They have lower rates of...
