Not too long ago I posted an interesting piece on my blog, Natural Health News, about the benefits of olive oil for bone health.

I posted the piece because for some time I have been encouraging people to use at least one tablespoon of EVVO (extra virgin olive oil) daily for part of their healthy intake of fat.

The oil cures the body and the soul

History reports many evidences of the thaumaturgic properties of oils. In a novel the story of a miraculously cured Franciscan friar

by Carlotta Baltini Roversi

The oil that derives from olives is good for both the body and the soul health. Hence, not only as a feed, but also as the anointing oil, a miraculous fluid. As a matter of fact, there are many evidences of the healer properties of olive oils. In every producer country, Spain, Italy, Greece and the whole Mediterranean area, traditions report many examples of prodigious recoveries.
Religions recognized many times those supernatural episodes, making them more believable or likely. Even if local legends show many improbable episodes, about some of them it is difficult to doubt. In Italy, this particular aspect of oil was deepen by a novel, L’olio della conversione, by Luigi Caricato. The novel is about a mystic friar of 1600s, Joseph of Cupertino.
The friar of the Friars Minor Conventuals order suffered from a terrible disease during his childhood that forced him at bed. Joseph was written off, but his doctor decided to apply him some oil as an extreme solution; the oil was taken from the lamp burning before a picture of Our Lady of Grace at the Galatone Sanctuary. The anointing was miraculous and was able to get rid of a terrible tumor. This miracle, besides saving the young boy, was able to open him the way to Sanctity. Joseph of Cupertino is well known, also to laymen, for his ecstasies and flights.

Extra virgin olive oil helps against ulcerative colitis too

Many refer to olive oil as a functional food. Some even see it as a nutraceutical product. For sure, it does well

by Carlotta Baltini Roversi

As a great scholar like professor Francesco Visiol has often pointed out, exaggerating does no good. Still, defining olive oil as a functional food is not unrealistic. On the contrary, the presence of olive oil in the diet is beneficial. It is better not to venture the guess that is nutraceutical food, though.

For sure, more and more researchers have been studying it in depth, just like the scientists from East Anglia University who presented a study at the Digestive Disease Week in New Orleans, where they showed that olive oil can prevent ulcerative colitis.

Andrew Hart and colleagues have monitored 25 thousand people, aged 40 to 65, in Norfolk, UK. This impressive number of people voluntarily enrolled in the research, and none of them had ulcerative colitis before the start of the survey. They kept a detailed daily record of their food intake.

In 2004, 22 subjects were affected by ulcerative colitis and the researchers were able to conclude that habitual consumers of olive oil had a 90% lower risk of ulcerative colitis.

Andrew Hart reported that “ oleic acid apparently blocks the chemical agents active in the intestine which spread the inflammation at the basis of the illness”.

We may conclude, in turn, that two-three spoons of olive oil per day may help protecting our health.

The oil cures the body and the soul

History reports many evidences of the thaumaturgic properties of oils. In a novel the story of a miraculously cured Franciscan friar

Many refer to olive oil as a functional food. Some even see it as a nutraceutical product. For sure, it does well

by Carlotta Baltini Roversi

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