Fortunately all the oil consumption I do is of the virgin type
Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
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Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#142Virgin olive oil is more expensive. The most important, and well known confounding factor in observational health research is socioeconomic status - rich people live longer than poor people. This research attempted to control for it in a limited fashion, but that's not nearly enough.
The study was in Spain were both the quality of olive oil is very high and the retail cost fairly low comparatively with the rest if the world.
Also many arguably poor farmers will grow their own olive trees and distribute the oil yield among their wider family.
So perhaps not so case closed as you say.
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#143Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wasn’t aware you could buy anything from Amazon at all without fear of adulteration.
Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.
I do not like Amazon for many reasons (treating employees being the main). However I bought crapload of electronics there for personal use and for my business and it was fine either right from the start or was refunded / replaced without problems even when not being fulfilled by Amazon.
Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#145Greek olive oil is considered the best in the world and doesn't suffer from Mafia infiltration which is a huge problem in Italy [1] [2] [3]. Here is some good quality Greek olive oil available in US, reasonably priced, that you can buy without fear of adulteration or other shadiness: https://www.amazon.com/Terra-Creta-Kolymvari-Protective-Desi... https://www.amazon.com/Iliada-Extra-Virgin-Olive-Liter/dp/B0... The Gre…
I would also recommend Croatian oil.
Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.
Even if you buy it from the manufacture's official Amazon store?
Thanks to Amazon comingling inventory, you can buy something from one seller and have it fulfilled from the inventory of another. There's no protection from fakes and counterfeits. Even the reviews aren't enough to be sure.
Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#147I’m kind of bad at parsing these studies so maybe someone can help: Did they control for people opting for virgin OO having other confounding lifestyle factors that would cause the effect? I certainly lean towards virgin OO when I’m feeling that I want to be healthy.
> I certainly lean towards virgin OO when I’m feeling that I want to be healthy. Fwiw the use case for non-virgin olive oil is different. You’d want to use non virgin in anything that involves heat as it won’t burn or break down as easily. For anything that you’ll taste (eg dressings) you’d want an extra virgin oil that will have more of the plants’ taste. Could be worth splurging on nice oil for dressings/dipping oi…
Some of this is contrary to what I've read and my personal experience:
Subjecting EVOO to an electric blender results in a distinctly bitter taste. For salad dressings that involve a blender, I stick with non-EV olive oils.
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I live in Portugal where most olive oil is good quality. The taste and appearance among good olive oil varies wildly and the super-premium ones will usually taste quite different from standard decent quality supermarket extra virgin.
I lived with a Greek flatmate for a while. By far the best olive oil I've had was from their family owned olive grove. Usually brought back from his trips home in reused milk jugs.
Yeah, all I've got is unlabeled jugs of oil a friend pressed himself
Re: Only virgin type of olive oil consumption reduces the risk of mortality: study
#149Virgin olive oil is more expensive. The most important, and well known confounding factor in observational health research is socioeconomic status - rich people live longer than poor people. This research attempted to control for it in a limited fashion, but that's not nearly enough.
Or simply that people who care more about their health are more likely to purchase extra virgin olive oil. Unsurprisingly, those people might have lower mortality. These kinds of studies are often useless. The authors try to control for some confounding factors, but reality is just too messy.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I would never buy anything electronic, or anything to consume or put on my body from amazon.
I do not like Amazon for many reasons (treating employees being the main). However I bought crapload of electronics there for personal use and for my business and it was fine either right from the start or was refunded / replaced without problems even when not being fulfilled by Amazon.
This works poorly when you buy something like an SD card, store something you care about on it, and then try to read it back off the card later.