The Healing Powers of Olive Oil: A Complete Guide To Nature's Liquid Gold

by Cal Orey

Boost your immune system with antioxidants, lower your risk for the flu, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more—with ordinary everyday ingredients you can find at home—and make healthy green choices in today’s fast-changing world!

"A fascinating read--olive oil is not only delicious--it is good medicine!" --Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D.

"One of our most important foods. This book deserves to be in everybody's home library." --Elson M. Haas, M.D., author of Staying Healthy with Nutrition, 21st Century Edition

Discover Olive Oil's Extraordinary Powers!

Revised and updated, this indispensible book reveals why chefs, doctors, and nutritionists all love extra virgin olive oil, a key ingredient in the Mediterranean Diet--and why other healthful oils from vegetables, fruits, and nuts are not far behind. You'll find easy recipes for satisfying foods like Pizza Baguettes with Garlic Oil, Fudgy Coconut Oil Brownies, Honey-Citrus-Olive Oil Fruit Kabobs, and Macadamia Nut Oil Cookies. Also included: home cures that beat colds and reduce pain, beauty and household secrets, and pet care tips that really work!

Deliciously healing surprises. . ..

The art of using olive oil for mind, body, and spirit goes back 6,000 years. Hippocrates, "the father of medicine," used olive oil in over 60 healing remedies.

New research confirms that olive oil can help lower the risk of heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes, and it can stall age-related diseases.

Combining olive oil with other oils (like coconut and macadamia nut oils), can help combat fatigue, infections, and insomnia, and help you fight fat and shape up!

Bring on the butter--especially the right kind and right amount. When paired with oils, this twentieth-century "forbidden" saturated fat is a new twenty-first-century health food.

"Orey gives kudos to olive oil--and people of all ages will benefit from her words of wisdom." --Dr. Will Clower, CEO Mediterranean Wellness

Genres: Health, Cooking, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Food

260 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2008

About the author

Cal Orey is an author-journalist (savvy researcher) and pens fiction. She has a master's degree in English (Creative Writing) from San Francisco State University. Orey lives in Northern CA and is known for her hugely popular Healing Powers book collection published by Kensington.

The Healing Powers of Herbs & Spices: Timeless Treasures #9 has made its way to being a pick in Woman's World Magazine Book Club, Booklist, American Global News, NYC Daily Post, New York Daily, City Buzz News, Huffington Post, more than 68 libraries worldwide, many hard copy and online magazines... noted on C2CAM, KSFO...

These down-to-earth, compelling lifestyle-
cookbooks with lively stories have been translated in 20+ languages; featured by Bookspan (including Literary Guild, Good Cook). Her latest books are The Healing Powers of Essential Oils (2019), The Healing Powers of Superfoods (2019), The Healing Powers of Tea (2018), The Healing Powers of Honey (2018, mass market, gift size 416 pages), and The Healing Powers of Vinegar, 3rd edition mass market format.

Reviews

[Rosalía · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were some interesting tidbits regarding the history and use of olive oil. Recipes are always fun, too. The author, however, seems to believe that olive oil is the cure all for disease and skin blemishes. If you have a form of Cancer, Diabetes, or Disease X, you must take the ideas in the meaning of good will. Yes, olive oil is a better choice than butter, but it won't cure cardiovascular disease. Cal is not a doctor. It's like the Windex approach in the movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding. The Mediterranean diet is great for your health and skin. It is not however, a substitute for a doctor.

If you understand that this is a good/fun book in regards to History and the cultural importance of Olive Oil, you'll enjoy it. If you want "healing powers," you'll mock the author's silliness.

[Linda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm trying a heart healthy diet for the new year since my husband was in the hospital for congestive heart failure over the holidays. If that isn't an incentive to change your lifestyle, what is? So I checked out The Healing Powers of Olive Oil: A Complete Guide to Nature's Liquid Gold. As far as health benefits I didn't learn anything I didn't know. Much of the book was about which countries produce the most olive oil, olive oil tourism, Biblical references to olive oil. That was extra stuff I wasn't looking for.

[Ra Hiim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Want it

[Sallee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book quite informative and will definitely use some of the things she talked about.I am going to check at our local natural food and health store for the L'Olivier beauty products. The dog biscuits look like a good bet too. I think the less chemicals we can use the better for our health.

[Toots Mama]

I look forward to using some of the ideas to clean or for home cures. A lot of info! So I will for sure need to go back & reference it a lot.

[Rebekah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite interesting information! In short, add olive oil to your diet!