The health and beauty benefits of olives highlight all the reasons why you should start eating a Mediterranean diet!
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Increase Your Personal Brain
Sixty percent of the brain is composed of fat. Olive healthy fat is what your brain pans need to work smarter and more efficiently, ensuring such outstanding traits as more courage, hocus pocus, and better focus. Is it (literally) material for thought?
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Low Blood Pressure
Your fresh mantra: fat is your friend. At least, good species such as monosaturated fats, including olives, which have been shown to lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol. Here are 24 other products that keep blood pressure under control
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Softens skin and hair
With vitamin E, olive oil is great for softening skin and hair. For hair, make a puree avocado pasta and 2 tablespoons olive oil. Let sit in hair for 30 minutes before rinsing.
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Fight Inflammation
Olives are packed with antioxidants (especially oleuropein, which occurs only in olives). This means they are full of anti-inflammatory properties. The less inflammation you have, the faster (and more effectively) your body heals.
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Bones
We all know that calcium is essential for the best bones, but did you know that olives also have many important strengthening side effects? Studies have shown that people who ate a Mediterranean diet (i.e., lots of olives and olive oil) had a higher percentage of osteoblasts, the cells used by the body to build bone.
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Remove Makeup
Instead of store-bought makeup remover, which is more likely to contain irritating and harmful chemicals, use olive oil. (Bonus: it rehydrates your personality too.) Scrub elementary to your personality with uncertain washcloth and it’s done.
If you’re curious about what you can make with the rest of your olive oil, take a look at one of these 10 great techniques to use it.
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Improve Blood Circulation
Goodbye, bad blood circulation! While the vitamin E in olives isn’t enough to cause the formation of blood clots, the high iron content will promote the best possible blood flow through your body. Make one of these delicious Mediterranean recipes and reap the benefits.
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Improve Your Own Memory
One text: polyphenols. These are natural chemicals in olives known to improve memory by lowering brain stress. Include more of the good stuff? Consuming more olives and olive products can help reduce the risk of memory-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.
Amanda is a freelance lifestyle creator and editor for National Teenage Magazine, where she spends the majority of her time creating #content. In the (rare) moments she wasn’t at her desk, she was probably teaching hot yoga, reading the latest chick flick, or baking her famous tortillas.
