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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LIPID SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 114, Issue 4, Pages 375-388Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ejlt.201100164
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Extra virgin olive oil; Human health; Physiological mechanisms; Therapeutic
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Among vegetable oils, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) has nutritional and sensory characteristics that make it unique and a basic component of the Mediterranean diet. EVOO has always been used over the centuries for its preventive and therapeutic properties, as well as precious and valuable dietary lipidic condiment. Benefic effects of a diet rich in EVOO on the human health, especially in prevention and/or reduction of hypercholesterolaemia, serum lipoprotein levels and atherosclerosis, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases and thrombotic risk, oxidation and oxidative stress, obesity and type 2 diabetes, inflammatory processes and cancer are discussed in these review. Recent studies suggest also its role in regulating the sense of satiety. The chemical compounds of EVOO that may contribute to its overall therapeutic characteristics, the epigenetic and physiological mechanisms involved are focused, taking into account the most important studies in the literature of the last years.
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