Drinking olive oil is a time-honored practice that offers numerous health benefits. It has been used for centuries in Mediterranean cultures and is an integral part of many diets. Drinking olive oil can help improve heart health, aid digestion, promote weight loss, reduce the risk of cancer, and improve skin health.
Starting your Mediterranean diet, you don't need to give up your hamburger forever. Just agree with yourself that now you get it a little less often than before. And instead of missing a couple of hamburgers a month, you will enjoy grilled salmon and a glass of organic orangePinot Gris. Deal?
“One wandering Spartan, having gone to the inn to spend the night, gave the host the fish that he had brought with him and asked him to cook it for dinner. The host agreed, but said that dinner would still require at least olive oil and bread, to which the Spartan objected: “If I had olive oil and bread, would I mess with this fish?!” - An old Greek joke, the author is unknown.
The use of olive oil for hair care is traceable back thousands of years. Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Romans took care of their bodies just as we do now. They were known to use olive oil for hair and skin care, and it has been a staple ingredient in many traditional Mediterranean beauty remedies.
Oljka (Olea Europaea) je ena najstarejših in najpomembnejših udomačenih rastlin, ki jih gojijo ljudje. Od svojega nastanka se je to drevo, tako naravno kot s pomočjo človeka, razdelilo na številne sorte. Danes je na svetu približno 700 sort oljk. Kdo ve, morda jih kdaj vse zberemo tukaj?
Živimo v svetu iluzij, zablod in fantazij. Včasih je pretežko ne izgubiti meja zdrave pameti.Zadnja leta je postalo moderno uživanje nefiltriranega olivnega olja.Ta priljubljenost temelji na domišljiji, da je nefiltrirano oljčno olje bolj naravno, pristno, bolj sveže in bolj zdravo kot filtrirano oljčno olje.
Kaj je bila sredozemska prehrana dolgo preden so jo izumili v Ameriki? Kaj so jedli starodavni prebivalci Sredozemlja in ali se temu reče sredozemska prehrana? Skratka, odgovor je da.Ja, bila je ista sredozemska prehrana in od takrat se ni popolnoma nič spremenilo.Ampak veste, vedno so nekatere podrobnosti ...
»… Na splošno je devet desetin naše sreče odvisnih samo od zdravja. Največja neumnost je žrtvovati zdravje za kakršno koli drugo vrsto sreče, kakršna koli že je, za dobiček, napredek, učenje ali slavo, kaj šele za minljive čutne užitke." Arthur Schopenhauer
Okus in aroma oljčnega olja sta čarobna. Gre za edinstveno kombinacijo različnih komponent: zemlje, podnebja, časa obiranja in … Da, še nekaj je: pomembno je, kdo so sosedje oljke. In tukaj se magija umakne povsem razumljivim znanstvenim dejstvom.
No, če smo iskreni, sredozemska prehrana ne obstaja. Obstajajo samo kulturne in kulinarične tradicije ljudstev, ki živijo okoli Sredozemskega morja. Marsikaj v teh tradicijah je skupnega vsem ljudstvom, še več pa je med njimi razlik.
