OLIVE OILS AND HEALTH

OLIVE OILS AND HEALTH	1
Prologues	8
Editor’s preface	11
Author index	19
Table of contents	26
A - THE KEY ROLE OF DIET IN HEALTH: OLIVE OILS	33
1. OILS AND FATS	34
2. TRANS FATTY ACIDS AND HEALTH	46
3. OLIVE OIL: PRODUCTION, TYPES OF OIL, AND COMPOSITION	58
4. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL IN GASTRONOMY AND HEALTH	70
5. BENEFITS OF THE USE OF EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL FOR COOKING	80
6. OLIVE OIL AND THE CURRENT INSTITUTIONAL, SOCIOECONOMIC, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT	86
B - OLIVE OILS IN DEFFERENT STAGES OF LIBE AND IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY	96
7. OLIVE OIL CONSUMPTION IN SPECIAL SIT ATIONS SUCH AS PREGNANCY, CHILDHOOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE	98
8. VIRGIN OLIVE OIL AND AGEING	106
9. OLIVE OIL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY	117
C - BENEFITS OF VIRGIN AND EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OILS IN DISEASES	127
10. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE	128
11. VIRGIN OLIVE OIL CONSUMPTION IN THE PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT METABOLIC SYNDROME	138
12. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY	146
13. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL AND ITS BENEFICAL EFFECTS ON HAEMOSTASIS AND COAGULATION	158
14. DIET AND CANCER: A PROLONGED RELATIONSHIP THAT CAN BE OREVENTED - OR EVENTUALLY ESTABLISHED . OVER TIME	166
15. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, THE IMMUNE SYSTEM, INFLAMMATION: ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES AND IMMUNOMODULATORS	180
16. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL PROTECTS AGAINST COGNITIVE DECLINE	187
17. OTHER PATHOLOGIES IN WHICH EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL HAS SHOWN HEALTHY EFFECTS	196
D- OLIVE OIL WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET AND A HEALTHY LIFESTYLES	204
18. EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL, MEDITERRANEAN DIET, LIFESTYLE, AND HEALTH	206
GLOSSARY	214
NUTRITION AND HEALTH CLAIMS AUTHORISED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONS APPLICABLE TO OLIVE OILS	339

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