A new research has proposed what could make you adopt a diet, which uses a lot of olive oil. It has been reported by a research that people who use plenty of olive oil in their diets, might be helping to prevent damage to body cells that can eventually lead to cancer.
 
The research is based on a study that was conducted on 182 European men: the researchers found some evidence that olive oil can reduce oxidative damage to cells’ genetic material–a process that can initiate cancer development in the body. It is important to notice from the words of researchers that state that the findings of the research might be able to give some clue about why rates of several cancers are higher in Northern Europe than in Southern Europe, where olive oil is a dietary staple.

Dr. Henrik E. Poulsen, co-author of the study, of Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark states that they support the advice to replace saturated fats from foods like meat and butter with vegetable fats, particularly olive oil. The findings of the research were reported in the journal The FASEB.

It is believed that the olive oil contains a large number of compounds that are known as phenols in chemistry, and believed to act as powerful antioxidants. However, those compounds didn’t seem to account for the drop in DNA oxidative damage. 

It can be easily understood that the research’s findings point out that olive oil may be part of the reason that certain cancers, including breast, colon, ovarian, and prostate cancers, are less common in Mediterranean countries than in Northern Europe–an indication about the benefit of olive oil being used regularly in their diet.

Though we may need deeper research findings to come to a conclusion about these findings; however, the present research has clearly provided us a way to move ahead with this concept.