Olives: nature's gift for the welfare of mankind

 Today we have come across some very common type of diseases that are found all around the globe and the severity of it is that the age factor have died. Now we see infants with birth diabetes, or cardiovascular diseases from birth. This is really terrifying that people have transformed from healthy bodies to disease packets that then goes on for generations.

The major and most common types of diseases are

Heart issues

Diabetes

Osteoporosis 

Cancer

Inflammation

High blood pressure

High cholesterol level

Infertility in both genders

Inflammation

Stomach ulcers

Obesity

All these are the most common and widely spread diseases around the world. The problem is that we have gone for all types fast foods and instant recipes and have overlooked the health of our body and our generations.

All around in nature we have lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat and dairy products that can maintain our health and help us protection from many diseases.

But today we are going to talk about one important fruit that can save us from all the common diseases that are found in people everywhere. Yes just one fruit that is really helpful and is used for medicinal purposes from historic era. From the time of Roman's, Arabs, or any other older civilization this fruit was used for cure of many diseases, and was used in many types of medicines.

This magical and all powerful fruit is OLIVE. Yes the small stone like fruit is full of so many nutrients that it can be used for prevention and  all the diseases mentioned above and many more common diseases.

Olives are stone like fruit, that is found in two colors, when ripen, black and unripe is green. Some olives stay green when ripped and some turn black but unripe olive is always green. And to remember only couple of olive types are edible without processing. Rest need to go through complete processing methods before that can be used for eating. Basically the natural flavor of olive is sour, that's why they need to go through traditional processing methods to make it edible. The only difference of black and green is the sodium content in each. Green olives have greater content of sodium in them then compared to black olives.

Nutritional composition 

Now let's see what is the nutritional composition of olives that can help us from so many diseases.

Olives are found rich in the following basic nutrients of our body

Calcium: 

This is the most essential part of our body. Calcium is found in our bones, nervous system, and muscles. Our whole body depends upon the impulses generated by our nervous system if this system is damaged or weak our whole body will collapse in no time. Hence it is very essential to keep our calcium levels at normal. 

Another use of calcium is for Bone density. Bone health is very essential for healthy living. From the day we take birth to the day we die bone density is all that is considered the bar in calculating human body's health. Low bone density is called osteoporosis that is a diseases in which patients face easy facture and bone rusting. Olives help in reducing osteoporosis and increase bone density.

Iron:

Iron is the essential nutrient for our blood and bone marrow. Therefore deficiency can cause serious damage. Blood is the life line of human body. Blood deficiency is fatal in many cases. 

Low blood iron levels can result in numerous diseases attacks like faster heart beat, swollen hands and feet, uric acid issues, organ swelling, and cold hands and feet all time, damage to eye sight. There are levels of blood quality in our body system. If this quality is not maintained our body can lose its immunity power and that can be really risky. Thus iron is the major component of our blood. 

 Vitamin:

Olives are abundant in vitamins and specifically vitamin E that is very necessary for our digestive system because these are also called Antioxidants .

Antioxidants are nutrients are important to keep our gut healthy and helps in digestion too. That is not all, these vitamins also helps reduce inflammation in intestines and throughout the digestive track. Many types of vitamin are required to keep our body in working condition and away from many internal issues. 

Olives are natural sources of vitamins so it is a good alternative to vitamin supplements. If you use olives daily you will never need to find vitamin supplements and you will be immune to many issues related to vitamins deficiency. 

Copper:

Copper is very essential in prevention of heart attack that is why olives are important to avoid any risk of heart attack. Olives can prevent many types of heart issues. These include high blood pressure, high cholesterol level, and heart attack. Olives can reduce these risk and hence can keep our heart health at top priority.

Oleic acid is abundantly found in olives and many other useful fatty acids that are very helpful in keeping good heart health, and prevent high cholesterol levels in our blood that in return helps the smooth movement of blood through out our body.

So by now you are very well aware of all the nutritional value of olives. There are still many things that can be listed.

• Olives are found with Oleic acid and anti Antioxidants  that are found making disturbances in cancer cells. That means that olives are helpful in prevention of cancers. Curing of cancer still needs more researches and experiments. 

• Another important factor is that these olives are helpful in maintaining the reproductive system of both men and women. That is these olives help in keeping eggs and sperm in healthy state and helps in fertility rate of them.

 

• Last but not least the olives are also helpful in type 2 diabetes. That means olives can help reduce diabetes and prevent from happening in the first place. 

All these qualities are found in Olive oils too along with reducing the risk of obesity. Other oils increase calories intake but olive oil does not. Rest of the things are same i.e all other qualities are equal in both olives and it's oil.

For the last word olives should be part of our daily diet to keep our whole body healthy and full of good vibes.