Is it healthy to eat olive oil every day on everything you eat?

Answer 1

No. Even with all the healthy good stuff found in olive oil, it is still 100 calories per Tablespoon. You should still limit your intake of fats (which oil is) to be less than 30% of your calorie intake per day.

That being said, switching from Corn oil or canola oil to olive oil is a good thing to do, since it has more of the healthy fats than other cooking oils.

Answer 2

Olive oil is the healthiest oil you can eat, so if you're eating it on everything in place of other oils, it's a good thing. If you're just pouring olive oil on everything in addition to the other oils, then too much of pretty much anything is bad for you. But I doubt you're overdoing the olive oil. It's expensive...

God bless.

Answer 3

If you are going to eat oil or fat, olive oil is one of the healthiest. But 2 tablespoons at most is sufficient fat intake for most adults who eat a "regular diet." It shouldn't be poured on everything one consumes, because it is a source of fat and calories and this practice could lead to excesses of both. If the person is on a very low fat diet, he or she should be encouraged to consume a minimum of 2 tablespoons on a salad or a potato to get sufficient fat in the diet.

Answer 4

The beneficial effects of consuming olive oil are backed by lengthy, painstaking scientific research. Fats and oils have a common denominator in the energy value (9 calories per gram) but the metabolism of each different group differs greatly from the rest.
Olive oil contains a series of compounds that are very beneficial to most functions of the human body and its' biological and therapeutic value is related in many aspects to its chemical structure.
Extra-virgin olive oil is the most digestible of the edible fats and:
it helps to assimilate vitamins A, D and K;
it contains essential acids that cannot be produced by our own
bodies;
it slows down the aging process;
it helps bile, liver and intestinal functions.
It is noteworthy that olive oil has a beneficial effect in the dietary treatment of diabetes. In addition it helps control blood pressure and increases the bone mass. It is believed that olive oil has a favorable effect on the development of the central nervous and vascular systems, in brain development as well as normal child
development.
The human body easily absorbs olive oil. This means that the body absorbs the good ingredients such as vitamin E and phenols, which have anti-oxidizing properties and prevent the oxidization of fatty tissue. Another important element is chlorophyll. Olive oil facilitates the cleansing of the gull bladder. Olive oil is not only easy to digest but it also helps the digestion of other fatty substances because it helps the secretions of
the peptic system and stimulates the pancreatic enzyme lipace.
A major cause for the degeneration of the cells – and their eventual destruction – is the accumulation of free radicals, which are produced by the oxidization of the fatty tissues in the body. Vitamin E, phenols and other antioxidizing substances protect the human body from the negative effects of free radicals. Olive oil contains a high percentage of phenols and vitamin E and as a result helps delay the aging process.
Olive oil consumption has a very positive effect on blood cholesterol. Olive oil limits the oxidizing of bad cholesterol (cause of artillery skilorsus and heart disease) because it
is rich in anti-oxidizing agents.
Researches are beginning to focus on some of the other elements in olive oil, elements that are similar to anti-cancer compounds found in some fruits and vegetables. Olive oil does appear to have a role not only in combating heart disease
but also in the control of excess weight, diabetes and in protection against some kinds of cancer.

Now, this doesn't mean that adding olive oil to a bad diet will make you healthy but cutting fat intake, limiting animal fats and using olive oil as primary source of dietary fat, along with a diet rich in fruits, grains, legumes and vegetables accompanied by a
regular physical activity will enhance health.

Answer 5

Olive oil is good for you but be careful of too much of anything.

Answer 6

They say that virgin olive oil help is metabolism so I think it is healthy. I love to dip my bread into olive oil and parmessan cheese. Yummy!

Answer 7

Oil is not a necessary element in the nutritional system. It's not healthy, it's not bad -- but too much CAN eventually bad. It's just oil, after all.

Answer 8

pretty much...monounsaturated fats are 2nd best behind Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids which are the most important fats in the diet.

I go through 50 oz of olive a month easy, it put it in my protein shakes on salads, on chicken on just about everything...

Answer 9

People have a warped sense of olive oil's value to health.

Yes. As far as fat goes, it's mostly good fat.

But, it's still FAT and it still has saturated fat in it.

Use it in moderation. Like one tablespoon per day or LESS.

Fat America and it's bad advise...

Answer 10

I would say yes it is.olive oil is healthy.