We have been talking about olive oil benefits in most of the articles on this blog. Many other websites do something similar and oftentimes different information is provided about the subject. In this blog we have decided to stick to facts rather than words about olive oil and olive trees.
Our previous articles have talked about scientific information about the benefits of using olive oil regurlarly in your diet so in this article I am going to write about the interview I had with Mike about his experience with really good quality olive oil, olive oil you can drink or appreciate just having it with as slice of oven baked bread.
I met Peter on flickr while searchign for inspirational photos about fresh olive oil (check his collection here) I was really struck by the quality and passions of his photos about olive oil, olive trees and olives, so I got in touch with him.
After a few emails he gave me access to all his photo (thanks Peter!) and he told me he gets his fresh olive oil directly from oil mill (Frantoio in Italian). I am not affiliated with these guys and the fratoio owner did not even have time to talk about his oil mill (!!) because now there it is the pick season and he is too busy in the production of fine olive oil. 
Nevertheless, I am happy to link to them here because I know our readers can find there a great olive oil. I am talking about the Frantoio Sant’Anna, in Souther Italy, the land of the best Italian Olive Oil.
Coming back to Peter, here it is what he has to say about his experience with olive oil and its health benefits.
“I was just curious how a (frantoio) olive oil mill works so I went
to Sant’Anna near where I live.
Its just impressive how the big granitic millstones works upper left side. Very noisy.
When they start the press season, they work 20 hours a day even
sunday. (October – december).
As you can see on the pic in the blog the whole frantoio is very
clean.
People should eat/drink from this olive oil at least 2 tablespoons
a day, more is better.
I use about 1 liter in a month, put it on vegetables, toasts, Spelt
(rondelle) and so on.
Always fresh from the bottle, cold. I myself don’t use it for
cooking its just too good and tasty cold on anything.
The diffrent from good olive oil buyed in the frantoio, you know
what you eat, good quality,
olive oil from the supermarket — I don’t trust them low cost oil
– no never — !
Since I use this olive oil from the Sant’Anna frantoio my health is
better over all.
Colesterol HDL is better, higher, LDL is lower now, bone pain is
gone (about after 6 weeks) Glicemia is better, trigliceridi are
lower now.
I can only say, eat it and you will see its good for you.
Read all about the benefits in the blog, its the trouth whats
written there.”
Thaks a lot Peter, I am sure the readers will appreciate your story about what health benefits drinking oilve oil brought to you. I also have to thank you for the very nice words you have said several times about this blog ( we just started!!!). We know that olive oil is great for health and we aim to become the main point of reference about olive oil benefits (the real ones) and to suggest how to get the best olive oil on the web for those who are not as lucky as you to live near an olive oil mill!
As a reader, besides the health benefits of olive oil Peter has described in his life, one important thing you can see is that buying cheap olive oil from the supermaket it is not the same thing at all. I am sorry, it may be the easier way to get oilve oil but it just isn’t the same drink and benefits! Read more on our article about cold pressed extra virgin olive oil to know why.
In the next days I will be going around the web more collecting stories about what benefits people are getting in using olive oil, where they buy it from and how they are using it! If you want to tell us and our readers more about it, please feel free to get in touch with us.
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Nice post, thanks for sharing this wonderful and useful information with us.
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