{"id":432,"date":"2014-07-20T09:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T06:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/?p=432"},"modified":"2014-07-20T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T07:24:51","slug":"food-is-medicine-seminar-highlights-health-benefits-of-olive-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Food Is Medicine\u2019 Seminar Highlights Health Benefits of Olive Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">This month the organizations Nutrition Australia and the Australian Olive Association are co-hosting a series of free seminars on the health benefits of consuming extra virgin olive oil. The events are being held in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney and include a two-course lunch and presentations by three experts in the field.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0Aimed primarily at health professionals, the \u201cLet Food By My Medicine\u201d seminar features presentations by key note speaker Dr. Mary Flynn PhD, a nutritionist at The Miriam Hospital, a division of the Brown Medical School teaching hospital; Dr. Richard Gawel, research scientist and head judge at the Australian National Olive Oil Competition; and Lucinda Hancock, executive officer\u00a0of Nutrition Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Flynn has taught Principles of Nutrition and Diet and Chronic Diseases at Brown since 1998. Her research focuses on the relationship between diet and the development and treatment of chronic diseases. She developed a\u00a0plant-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/?p=435\" target=\"_blank\">EVOO<\/a> diet\u00a0and is currently working on a study comparing the diet to one\u00a0recommended by the U.S. National Cancer Institute for women with invasive breast cancer.<\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333;\" align=\"center\" data-twttr-id=\"twttr-sandbox-0\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In his presentation in Brisbane, Gawel shared information supporting the claim that cooking with olive oil is not unhealthy as many consumers have been led to believe, particularly when the oil is of high quality. Several health professionals in attendance tweeted their support for Gawel using the hashtag #foodismedicine. TODAY show nutritionist Dr. Joanna McMillan wrote \u201cLet\u2019s lose this myth forever! Yes you can cook with extra virgin olive oil!\u201d and \u201cGood olive oil has high smoke point above even very hot cooking e.g. fried fish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #333333; text-align: left;\">Nutrition Australia is a non-profit organization with offices throughout Australia that aims to promote the health and well-being of all Australians. Formed in 1995, the Australian Olive Association is the industry body representing Australian Olive Growers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month the organizations Nutrition Australia and the Australian Olive Association are co-hosting a series of free seminars on the health benefits of consuming extra virgin olive oil. The events are being held in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney and include a two-course lunch and presentations by three experts in the field. \u00a0Aimed primarily at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.olive.info.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}