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The #1 cause of death in the world is heart failure of some sort.<\/p>\nThe #1 cause of death in the world is heart failure of some sort.<\/p>\n
So, if you were to discover one single type of oil that could repair your heart in 30 minutes, I think you would be pretty interested, wouldn\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
Well, that\u2019s exactly the result of a new study conducted by the University of Illinois at the Chicago Center for Cardiovascular Research.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, this type of oil is available in every supermarket and you most likely already have it in your kitchen.<\/p>\n
For the study, researchers used rats with heart failure, a condition in which the heart has become too weak to pump blood effectively and metabolize fat.<\/p>\n
They actually extracted the rat\u2019s failing hearts and kept them pumping outside the body!<\/p>\n
Fat is essential to the heart to make it function smoothly. A failing heart is like a car engine running out of lubrication oil. The metal parts in the engine are just scraping together until it eventually completely burns up and ends with a bang (a heart attack).<\/p>\n
The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of fat was best for helping failing hearts to restore themselves. The researchers applied two different types of fats to the hearts to see their effects:<\/p>\n
2) Oleate (found in olive oil).\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
Observing the effect of these fat particles using special NMR spectroscopy, they discovered something amazing.<\/p>\n
First, not so surprisingly, the failing hearts injected with palmitate functioned\/dysfunctioned pretty much the same.<\/p>\n
But the hearts injected with oleate (olive oil) had completely restored fat content and began to show normal contractions after the injection.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s more, it happened within just half an hour!<\/p>\n
Now, of course, you\u2019re not going to inject your heart directly with olive oil, so your heart is not going to heal in half an hour. But this study shows for sure that consuming olive oil regularly can drastically improve your heart health.<\/p>\n
One thing to keep in mind when shopping for olive oil is to go for high-quality pricier brands. Cheaper brands have often been treated in a way that removes all health benefits (even if it\u2019s called \u201ccold-pressed Extra Virgin\u201d). I recommend always picking oil that is labeled from a specific location, such as Tuscany, Italy, Crete, or Greece. These oils are much more likely to be clean and unprocessed.<\/p>\n
Another thing you absolutely must do to keep your heart healthy is to keep your blood pressure under control.<\/p>\n