Mono-unsaturated fats in olive oil helped reduce colitis, in place of those.
For breakfast I usually toast a piece of bread, then drizzle it with olive oil. While eating their sugary cereals, my family laughs at me. But maybe after I show them this article they won’t laugh quite as much.
Side note to ConservativeMind: Thanks for these articles. They are appreciated.
I’ve switched entirely to olive oil, extra light olive oil for baking and extra virgin olive oil for sauting, etc....I do use Crisco for pies but I don’t make pie that often.
If you suffer from stomach troubles and use the term “bouts”, I would suggest a ketogenic diet to eliminate the possibility of your condition being diet related.
In this context, it is not what you are eating on keto, it is what you are not eating, which is processed foods.
I believe we are just on the cusp of understanding what eating all the man-made molecules/ingredients in our food does to us. Processed foods loaded with man-made ingredients are in effect no different than drugs. In fact, they are designed to make you crave them. (see “bliss points”) Drug reactions are mostly unpredictable. Who is to say how anyone might react to the mixture of processed and man-made ingredients in bread? Hamburger Helper? Pink Peeps?
If you pull up to a Wawa or Bucees to “get something to eat”, you are a victim.
Wow, interesting! I’m going through a mild flare of my UC right now, even after my Entyvio infusion. We love our olive oil here, and the oil we’ve been using is a blend from half a dozen different countries.
That California oil IS expensive, but I’ll try it.
THANK YOU, CM, for the info!!
I had problems with colitis many years ago. I found out the culprit was hydrogenated vegetable oil in cookies and candy bars. Never had it since.
An old friend of mine got a case of Diverticulitis and he thinks it was from popcorn. Who knows what kind of oil is used in bag popcorn.
Im a big fan of olive oil and have replaced all the seed oils in the house with either olive oil or clarified butter. Im an even bigger fan of clarified butter. Its the easiest thing to make on the stovetop and I keep a quart mason jar right by the stove for easy access. Not sure about the effects of olive oil vs. clarified butter.
I wonder if Avocado oil causes problems....hhhmmmm