One of 15 Foods Excellent for Kidney Health: Olive Oil

Information, tips and recipes for adding olive oil to your healthy kidney diet plan.

Olive oil is one of 15 foods excellent for kidney health. It has many good compounds and studies show that in countries where it is used a lot lower rates of cancer and heart disease occur.

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How I Use Olive Oil NOW

and will continue to do!

anything i fry is cooked in olive oil
popcorn
anytime I bake something that needs oil in the pan

I will learn how to make olive oil dressings for pasta and salads and try some of the recipes I've collected into my Delicious Stack (which is linked to below).

I LIKE the taste of Olive Oil much better than any other one and anything you cook with it is lighter and has good flavour! ;)

Health Benefits of Olive Oil

high vitamin A, D, K and E content
easily digested
aroma and taste stimulates appetite
helps lower cholesterol
helpful with cancer, diabetes and heart disease

Wikipedia

Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. The oil is produced by grinding whole olives and extracting the oil by mechanical or chemical means. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics...

Simple Salad Dressing

Prep time 5 min - Total time 10 min

Ingredients for 4 servings
1 cup 250 mls) Extra Virgin Olive Oil • 1/4 cup (60 mls) unfiltered apple cider vinegar • 1/2 tsp (2-3 mls) seasoning salt • Fresh ground pepper to taste

Shake ingredients in a bottle.
Mix with any salad greens and serve.

Also can be good if you add garlic OR basil.

Recipe:

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Delicious Recipe Stack

Delicious: Olive Oil Stack
Recipe collection in a stack on Delicious. NOT all recipes are healthy or kidney friendly but once you learn what IS you can tweak recipes to suit you by having MORE of the acceptable ingredients and LESS of the not so good! ;)

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Dipping Olive Sprig with Black Olives in Olive Oil

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My Commentary

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a Dr.or other medical professional. I AM a sufferer and fighter of Polycystic Kidney Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension and Gout. Any information I share has been researched on the internet or has been given to me via papers and printed information from my Drs., nurses, dietician, social workers or other health care professionals. I mean NO harm to anyone and I advise you BEFORE using any information I have provided to CHECK with YOUR health professionals and doctors. I simply want to share what I am learning throughout my own personalized journey to wellness. It has been said, "Write what you know." THIS I know because I live with it DAILY. Having said that:

Food has been a struggle for me for a long while now but I MUST work at this and TRY hard to eat right and healthy and improve as much as I possibly can for as long as I possibly can so I figured if I am struggling with these things DAILY and doing all this work and learning ANYWAY, why not SHARE things that I am learning with others and make their journey a little bit easier for them too.

SO, I started these pages as a help BOTH for myself and for YOU.

If it is helpful PLEASE feel free to let me know! ;)

This is a HARD process and journey to wellness and I hope that if even for a moment, even ONE item or idea or trick that I share makes your journey lighter or easier then I have given purpose and meaning to the reasons why or how this has been MINE as well.

I always wish you well and good luck with your journey too. xo

Updated: 06/05/2012, KDB

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