Medical Guide

A strong connection between diet and blood pressure has been pointed out by scientific studies. Vegetarians and people following a Mediterranean-like diet usually assume more quantities of olive oil, cereals, fruit and vegetables and less food rich in saturated fatty acids like butter, milk-products, cheese and meat. Though scientists have no certain evidence yet, that the Mediterranean diet has anti-hypertensive effects, recent studies show that this diet produces a series of favourable factors to blood-pressure lowering. This channel of the scientific area is characterized by the integral publication of guides with their bibliographies-certifying the role of the olive oil in the total or partial solution of some pathologies . A recent study demonstrates how the use of the olive oil in a ‘non-modified’ diet can have a meaningful effect on blood-pressure, an effect solely derived from the olive oil and not simply linked to its monounsaturated fatty acids.