Okay, so what's the deal with Olive Oil?

But what about boosting your metabolism? doesn't olive oil boost your metabolism?!

No it does not. Foods don't "boost" your metabolism beyond the Thermic Effect of Eating or TEF.

Preeeety sure the person who posted the metabolism thing was making a funny, not being serious..

Ok, fine. Here's a news article about his death: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/18/2
And another one about his heart attack: http://articles.cnn.com/2002-04-25/health/atkins.diet_1_atkins-diet-cardiac-arrest-cardiomyopathy?_s=PM:HEALTH

I edited my post. Down at the bottom of that snopes article you can see the sources they reference. We could do this for days......

I love my olive oil. the nice dipping kind. Colavita cold pressed. I had 2-3 Tbsp yesterday with pita for lunch and the olive oil had like 120 per Tbsp.....in total that olive oil was like 360 calories!!! it had no carbs though, or sodium.

so i know that like the whole Atkins philosophy was not to worry about calories or fat and that the carbs were what gained the pounds....which right now makes me feel better lol. but honestly I can't feel a bit down when I look at my calories and see i've gone 30-60 over for my daily intake because of olive oil!!

I've heard that olive oil is better for you as far as cholesterol is concerned and your heart....but what about gaining weight? Is olive oil bad for losing weight? If so, someone might have to pry the Colavita from my hands!

Atkins was a quack with some of his thinking and excess calories are what causes fat accumulation. Olive oil like all other foods are neither good nor bad for losing weight, eat in a deficit, profit

Agree, Atkins was a quack. He died of heart disease, did you know that?

Carbs don't make you fat just like fat doesn't make you fat. Excess calories make you fat. Period.

Bingo!!!

I tried the Adkins diet some time back...I actually gained weight because I knew nothing about calories in/calories out. I just thought cutting carbs would magically make the weight fall off. It probably would have worked too if I hadn't replaced all of the calories I was missing from cutting carbs with more calories from protein and fat so I was still netting a caloric surplus.

I now understand the science of all of this much better and am much happier for it. OP, if you want to do Akins, no biggie...just understand that it relies on the same principles as any other diet...caloric deficit. No/low carb diet programs assume that by cutting the carbs, you will naturally just be cutting out calories...thus you'll lose weight. It doesn't work if you replace those carb calories with calories from elsewhere. You ultimately still have to net to a deficit.

All I hear is Jerry Seinfeld...

Anywho, I ♥ olive oil. It's good. Eat it

I would also be suspicious of Olive Oil in general. Saw this link a week or so ago. Not sure about the validity of the claims, but I feel like we cant trust anything anymore these days.

http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10336

wow. thanks for that link. very interesting :

"The most common sensory defects were flavors and aromas described as rancid, fusty or muddy, and musty. Some of the oils tested were so defective that the sensory panelists classified them as lamp oil, considered by USDA standards to be unfit for human consumption without further refining."

a while back I did get some 365 Olive Oil from whole foods that tasted like it was adulterated.

instead of ingesting olive oil, i guess i'd be better off just bathing in Olive Oil like Sophia Loren!

Italian olive oil is basically controlled by the mob.

Try to find Spanish olive oil. As with any another food product, cultivars make a difference. I myself vastly prefer olive oil made from only hojiblana olives grown in Spain. Spain has a longer growing season for growing olives than Italy. This means that the olives are much more ripe and thusly when pressed creates a much more fruity and less bitter oil.