Category: Health and wellness
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| Categories: Food and Drink, Personal, Business, Health and wellness Researchers have discovered that the freshest Tuscan extra virgin olive oil contains a compound, oleocanthal, that acts very similarly to ibuprofen, inhibiting the activity of cyclooxygenase enzymes. There is now some speculation that this may help to explain why a Mediterranean diet, which is high in fat and salt, seems to lower the risk of cancer and heart ailments. Maybe, but I think there is more to it. Most members of my family, going at least three generations back, have had high cholesterol and high blood pressure. None of us have died from heart disease, with most dying after years of suffering with cancer, and a few subcumbing to old age in their late 90's. None have been near a freshly squeezed Tuscan olive in all those generations. 
My educational background is in chemistry, mathematics and philosophy, and my earliest career was as a System Engineer. From these disciplines, I learned that interfaces between and interactions among components are often more important than the properties of the components themselves. I've always tried to apply this thinking to any situation, be it a medical, informational, social or business related problem.
Always look at the interfaces. Always consider how things, people, data, interact.
Oleocanthal story via SFGate Science Digest.
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