Women who consume olive oil preserve their bone mass better
by Joyce Schneider,
A study from the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, has determined that a diet high in olive oil and low in red meat has a significant impact on women’s bone density.
Results of this study suggest that this eating pattern could have bone-preserving properties throughout adult life.
Diet is one of the modifiable factors for the development and maintenance of bone mass. The nutrients of most obvious relevance to bone health are calcium and phosphorus because they compose roughly 80% to 90% of the mineral content of bone; protein, other minerals and vitamins are also essential in bone preservation.
Traditional analysis has focused on the relation between a specific nutrient (e.g. calcium) and bone health. But, researchers of the Harokopio University of Athens, Greece, carried out a study in two hundred twenty adult Greek women, which is valuable for the understanding of the effect of meals, consisting of several food items, in skeletal mass.
Scientists examined whether adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, rich in plant foods and olive oil, low in meat and dairy products, and with moderate intake of alcohol, or other dietary patterns, have any significant impact on bone mass maintenance in adult Greek women. They determined that adherence to a dietary pattern with some of the features of the Mediterranean diet, i.e., rich in fish and olive oil and low in red meat and products, is positively associated with the indices of bone mass.
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Tunisie – Huile d’olive : Les opportunités du marché russe
Quatre opérateurs du secteur de l’huile d’olive en Tunisie ont participé au salon international de l’agroalimentaire “PRODEXPO-MOSCOU” qui s’est tenu du 9 au 13 février 2009.
Selon le Centre technique de l’emballage et du conditionnement “PACKTEC”, cette participation s’inscrit «dans le cadre d’un programme ambitieux qui vise l’amélioration de la visibilité de l’huile d’olive tunisienne à l’échelle internationale et le développement des exportations sur de nouveaux marchés».
A rappeler au passage que ce salon est l’une des expositions les plus visitées à Moscou et en Europe de l’Est. Il accueille, chaque année, plus de 45 mille visiteurs composés essentiellement de professionnels, d’hommes d’affaires et de chefs d’entreprise et plus de 2 mille exposants représentant les industriels de l’agroalimentaire, les distributeurs, les importateurs, les sociétés de restauration commerciale et collective, etc.
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Olives May Be Rescued By Helpful Wasp
By Marcia Wood,
Olives basking in sunny California groves might find that their new best friend is a small brown wasp. Known to scientists as Psyttalia cf. concolor, the little wasp can help foil the olive fruit fly, a powerful natural enemy of olives.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) entomologist Victoria Y. Yokoyama and colleagues have imported and studied the beneficial wasp, and have turned it loose—by the thousands—in olive-fruit-fly-infested groves in California, the nation’s No. 1 producer of this popular fruit.
Now, the scientists are continuing to carefully evaluate the wasp’s effectiveness in thwarting the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae.
First detected in California in 1998, olive fruit flies can now be found in every part of California where olives are grown, according to Yokoyama. She’s based at the agency’s San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center near Parlier, Calif.
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Olive oil sales help Aussies
Sally James, the Australian food writer transplanted to Yountville, tells the Register that Yellingbo Gold Extra Virgin Olive Oil is donating 100 percent of its profits through the end of February to the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal, which will help families and communities rebuild after the devastating fires in Australia.
Three Bridges Farm in Yarra Valley, where Yellingbo Gold is produced, had so far been spared from the bushfires that ravaged Victoria, James said. “With fires coming within 20 kilometers of Three Bridges Farm, some of their neighbors have not been so lucky,” James said.
The olive oil can be purchased online at www.yellingbo.com. Customers should add code RCA09 when checking out to mark their purchase as a donation for the Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.
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