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| Tips: |
| Quick-cooking oats offer the same nutrients as the old-fashioned kind, but contain added sodium. |
| If you're trying to cut calories, oat bran is a better choice than oatmeal: a cup of bran has 87 calories; a cup of oats has 145. They both contain the same nutrients. |
| Because they are high in polyunsaturated fat, oats can turn rancid quickly. Store them in an airtight container in a cool, dark place and use them within a few months. |
| SMART MOVE |
| ''As far as I'm concerned, you can take the whole food pyramid and just pour olive oil over it," said an only-half-joking Walter Willet, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, at a conference on the Mediterranean diet. |
| Olive Oil |
| Lowers dangerous LDL cholesterol |
| Helps prevent blood clots |
| Lowers blood pressure |
| Helps prevent heart disease |
| Reduces cancer risk |
| In Mediterranean countries it's been a top healing food for thousands of years. But in the U.S., olive oil was until recently considered just another fat, no better than butter. |
| Then scientists began puzzling over the fact that Greece, Spain, southern France, and Italy had unusually low rates of heart disease despite a high fat intake. On closer examination of the Mediterranean diet, they found their solution: people in those countries have a high intake of monounsaturated fatalmost all of it olive oilwhereas the Western diet is high in saturated fat. |
| Since that discovery, olive oil has undergone a dramatic change of statusfrom no-no to health necessity. |
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