- Olive oil has been used for thousands of years for its health benefits, which have now been scientifically confirmed. It has been used as currency, medicine, and even as a weapon when heated and dropped on attackers. - Olive oil provides many health benefits like reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and breast cancer. It may also help with weight loss and decreasing anger. - Olive oil has also been used for thousands of years in religious ceremonies and to preserve foods like fish and cheese. It has many uses from fuel for lamps to soap.

1. The Benefits of Olive Oil
Within the last century its benefits
have been scientifically confirmed.
However,they were already understood
in ancient times.

2. Reading Explorer2
Unit1/A OLIVE OIL
 Olives:A Love Story
 http://youtu.be/kLPJ037NTVA

4.  In ancient times olive oil was used as
money and as medicine.
 It was even used during war.
 After it was heated up,it was dropped
down on attackers.

6. It is still used in religious ceremonies

7. It helps protect the freshness of fish
and cheese.

9. Mediterranean people who have the habit of
consuming olive oil a lot have the lowest rate of
heart disease among Western Countries.

10. Plenty of research has shown that a Mediterranean style
diet can reduce the risk of diabetes.

11. Eating olive oil twice a day reduces women’s risk of
getting breast cancer.In other words,it prevents cancer.
Two Tablespoons of High Quality Olive Oil Every Day Help
Protect the Heart
It may even play a helpful role in diabetes and weight
loss.

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 Research indicates that replacing other types of food with
olive oil helps people lose weight without food restriction
or physical activity.
 Recently,one study has demonsrated that it may help
people decrease anger and increase physical activity.

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14.  There are even olive oil lamps and olive
oil soaps.
 Before the invention of electricity, it was
used as fuel for traditional oil
lamps.However,oil lamps are still used in
the churches , home prayer corners and in
the cemeteries.

15. Olive Oil
Nourishment
Olive Oil
Anti-Wrinkle
Olive oil is a good source of Vitamin E.That’s why,it
is commonly used in cosmetics and soap. Besides
oil,olive leaf and olive leaf extracts (OLE) are now
marketed as anti-aging ,immunostimulator and
antibiotic agent.
Also,in the past,it was used as a
cleanser(soap,detergent) and makeup remover
The ancient Egyptians,Greeks, and Romans had no
soap.They massaged olive oil into their skin,then
scraped it back off, along dirt and dead skin.
http://youtu.be/cg7kwM1Kc9I
Anti-aging Beauty Secrets with Olive Oil

16.  Whereas the olive symbolizes
life,renewal,resilience( the ability to recover
from an illness,change or misfortune) and
peace,its oil symbolizes purity, protection,
health and light.
 As you know,the olive branch is the symbol of
peace and olive oil is used for cooking and
healing.

17. An engraving from The London Magazine, January 1775,
showing the Goddess of Peace bringing an olive branch to
America and Britannia.

18.  The World Health Organization officially recommends that
people across the world should adopt The Mediterranean diet for
better health, and specifically suggests olive oil as the
healthiest source of fat on the planet.

19. Oil Wrestling /Grease Wrestling /Yağlı Güreş
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBtrI7HcE-k
 Wrestling is the Turkish national sport.It is so called
because olive oil is poured on the wrestlers’ bodies
before they start wrestling.
 The annual Kırkpınar Tournament is the oldest sporting
competition in the world.First, it was held in Edirne
in Turkish Thrace.Oil wrestling festivals also take
place in northern Greece, in the Eastern Macedonia
and West Thrace.However,in recent years,this style of
wrestling has also been popular in the Netherlands
and Japan.

20. Leading olive oil producers
 Spain 36%
 Italy 25%
 Greece 18%
 Tunisia 8%
 Turkey 5%
 Syria 4%
 Today 99% of the world’s olive oil comes from the
Mediterranean region.

21. Sam on Travel
TURKISH OLIVE OIL
You've probably consumed Turkish olive oil on a
number of occasions and don't even know it. How's
that? Turkey is the fourth or fifth largest producer of
olive oil in the world, after Spain, Italy, Greece, and
sometimes Tunisia, depending on the harvest. But as
with much of the olive oil in Spain and Tunisia, Turkish
olive oil is often sent to Italy to be repackaged and
sold as if it were Italian olive oil.
Then there are brands such as Cavallo d'Oro, which
sounds very Italian. But this is a Turkish oil that was
shipped to the United States and given an Italian name
to make it easier to sell.

23. How is olive oil produced?
Tuscany,Italy
http://youtu.be/P0yjSPy46Qs
Turkey
http://youtu.be/VhIg2dBUX6A
From ancient times until today,the basic process of
producing the oil is the same.
First,whole olives are crushed.In other words,they are
broken into pieces by applying pressure.
Then,the liquid is separated from the solids.
After that,the valuable oil is separated from the water.