Olive oil may help protect against ulcerative colitis!

Olive oil may advice anticipate ulcerative colitis, according to a fresh abstraction accommodating by medical advisers at the University of East Anglia.Presented at the Digestive Ache Week appointment in Fresh Orleans, the allegation appearance that bodies with a diet affluent in oleic acerbic – which is present in olive oil –are far beneath acceptable to advance ulcerative colitis.

Oleic acerbic is a monounsaturated blubbery acerbic begin in olive oil, peanut oil and grapeseed oil, as able-bodied as in adulate and assertive margarines.The researchers, led by Dr Andrew Hart of UEA’s School of Medicine, advised added than 25,000 bodies age-old 40-65 active in Norfolk, UK. The volunteers were recruited to the EPIC abstraction (European Prospective Investigation into Diet and Cancer) amid 1993 and 1997. The participants, none of whom had ulcerative colitis at the outset, completed abundant aliment affidavit which were after analysed by distinctively accomplished nutritionists alive in Cambridge.

By 2004, 22 participants in the abstraction had developed ulcerative colitis and the advisers compared their diets with those who did not advance the disease. They begin that those with the accomplished assimilation of oleic acerbic had a 90 per cent lower accident of developing the disease.

"Oleic acerbic seems to advice anticipate the development of ulcerative colitis by blocking chemicals in the bowel that aggravate the deepening begin in this illness," said Dr Hart.

"We appraisal that about bisected of the cases of ulcerative colitis could be prevented if beyond amounts of oleic acerbic were consumed. Two-to-three tablespoons of olive oil per day would accept a careful effect," said Dr Hart.Ulcerative colitis is characterized by deepening of the lining of the colon or ample bowel, which causes belly pain, diarrhoea and weight loss.