The Mediterranean Diet and Puglia Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Our olive farm has been producing extra virgin olive oil in Puglia since 1963, a 100% Italian oil with unmistakable sensory characteristics.
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Below, we explain the connection between the Mediterranean diet and extra virgin olive oil.
The American scientist Ancel Keys was awarded the Silver Medal of Merit for Public Health by the President of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for his studies and dissemination of the positive effects of the Mediterranean diet on human nutrition. In 1957, Keys, who is now 100 years old and lives in Minneapolis after residing for 40 years in Pollica in the Cilento region, hypothesized and demonstrated through the famous Seven Countries Study that blood cholesterol levels were directly related to the quantity and quality of fats consumed in the diet.
He studied the different eating habits and correlated them with local diseases; he utilized a sample of 12,000 cases of individuals aged between 40 and 59 in Italy, Finland, the Netherlands, Japan, Greece, the United States, and Yugoslavia. As he predicted, Keys concluded that a Mediterranean-type diet, low in saturated fats and where butter and lard were replaced with olive oil, reduced the incidence of heart disease, arteriosclerosis, obesity, and cancer.
The extra virgin olive oil is the principal food of the Mediterranean Diet, which can now be considered a true lifestyle model that everyone wishes to refer to, synonymous with health, beauty, and quality: in a word, Well-being. It is indeed true that in 2010 the UNESCO included the Mediterranean Diet in the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, defining it as “a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols, and traditions that range from the landscape to the table“.
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