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Higher Olive Oil Intake Reduces Risk of Total and Cause-Specific Mortality

March 1, 2022 by Captain Organic Planet

Consuming more than 7 grams of olive oil per day is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, cancer mortality, neurodegenerative disease mortality and respiratory disease mortality, according to a study of over 92,000 U.S. adults. “Olive oil consumption has been shown to lower cardiovascular disease risk, but its associations with total and cause-specific […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: cancer, cardiovascular, cardiovascular disease, extra virgin olive oil, oil, olive oil, respiratory disease

A spoonful of oil: Fats and oils help to unlock full nutritional benefits of veggies, study suggests

July 15, 2021 by Captain Organic Planet

The song says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but an Iowa State University scientist has published new research suggesting a spoonful of oil makes vegetables more nutritious. A new study led by Wendy White, an associate professor of food science and human nutrition, shows that eating salad with added fat in […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: fat, oil, salad

Chemicals in lavender and tea tree oil appear to be hormone disruptors

January 31, 2021 by Captain Organic Planet

A new study lends further evidence to a suspected link between abnormal breast growth in young boys — called prepubertal gynecomastia — and regular exposure to lavender or tea tree oil, by finding that key chemicals in these common plant-derived oils act as endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The study results will be presented Monday at ENDO 2018, […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: chemicals, endocrine disruptors, essential oil, hormone disruptors, lavender, oil, tea tree oil

Oil and gas wastewater as dust suppressant less than ideal

January 28, 2021 by Captain Organic Planet

At the least, wastewater from oil and gas drilling should be treated in a waste treatment facility before it is used on dirt roads to suppress dust or deice roads. At the best, affordable, nontoxic dust suppressants should be developed and used, according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers. “Thirteen states in the United States […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: gas, gas wells, oil, radiation, radioactive, radionuclides, radium, toxic chemicals, toxin, wastewater

America’s most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain

October 7, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet

New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible oil in the […]

Filed Under: GMO's Tagged With: brain, genetically engineered, genetically modified, gmo, linoleic acid, oil, soy, soybean

Virgin Coconut Oil And Its Antimicrobial Properties against Pathogenic Microorganisms

February 1, 2020 by Captain Organic Planet

The saturated medium-chain fatty-acid lauric acid (LA) has been associated to certain health-promoting benefits of coconut oil intake. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is the purest form of coconut oil, essentially water-clear or colourless that consists mainly of medium chain saturated fatty acids. For over many decades, the biological properties of VCO have been widely explored and […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial, coconut, coconut oil, Corona virus, coronavirus, immunostimulants, lauric acid, medium chain fatty acids, monolaurin, oil, pathogen, pathogens, virgin coconut oil, virus, viruses

Frying oil consumption worsened colon cancer and colitis in mice

August 26, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. For the first time, UMass Amherst food scientists set out to examine the impact of frying oil consumption on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and colon cancer, using animal […]

Filed Under: Cancer Tagged With: colitis, colon, colon cancer, frying oil, oil

Sesame Oil Extracts Shown to Reduce Heart Disease Risk

January 19, 2019 by Captain Organic Planet

A product in your pantry may hold the secret to protecting the heart from disease. UCF researchers have found that sesame oil can prevent or reduce the development of the build-up of plaque in the artery walls, known as atherosclerosis. In a study recently published in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal, Sampath Parthasarathy, a cardiovascular researcher at the […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: anti-inflammatory, atherosclerosis, heart disease, oil, seeds, sesame oil, sesame seeds

Coconut Oil Prolongs Life In Peroxisomal Disorders: Fruit Fly Study

June 21, 2018 by Captain Organic Planet

“Lorenzo’s Oil” was to help a seriously ill boy suffering from a peroxisomal disorder (adrenoleukodystrophy/ALD). The true story was turned into a film which made the rare disease well known. Scientists from the University of Bonn, the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the German Cancer Research Center investigated such peroxisomal diseases on fruit flies. […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: adrenoleukodystrophy, ALD, coconut, coconut oil, oil

Cell Damage Caused By Use Of Certain Personal Lubricants

December 22, 2017 by Captain Organic Planet

The use of certain water-based, over-the-counter personal lubricants can dry out and irritate vaginal and rectal tissue, but does not appear to increase susceptibility to HIV, according to a laboratory study published today in PLoS ONE. Even so, say study authors affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Microbicide Trials Network (MTN), more research is […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: cell, HIV, lubricant, lubricants, oil, sex, silicone

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