No, olives that have been processed for retail sale have been pickled and the antioxidant effect is dramatically reduced as a result. You would need to consume at least 4-6 ounces of olive oil a day to obtain the same antioxidant effect as one tablet of OLIVENOL™.

Not all olives, there are a few raw stores that sell truly raw sun cured olives. Anything in a can is most likely cooked.

The word "crushed" when used with olives does not mean the physical pressing down of the product. It actually indicates a slit being cut along the length of the olive which enables the olive to marinate and to mature. These are the preferred olives used by people who add various spices and flavours to their olives the crushing of the olive allows the olive to draw the flavour in. Check out Delphic's Olives range examples available on this website.

A healthy meal plan is one of the most important things you can do to help control your diabetes. Eating right doesn't mean you can't enjoy food anymore. It's more about knowing what's healthy and what's not, and finding foods you like that are good for you, too. Changing your diet to include healthier choices and preparing them more healthfully can make a big difference. A registered dietician can help you develop a meal plan that works for you.

ANRED, a national organization for Eating Disorders, supplies lots of information on anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating.

This page actually gets pretty in-depth. From the Diseases & Conditions section of the Mayo Clinic's massive online site, this page goes into: Dawn Myers talks about the possibility that some people develop eating disorders as a method of coping with the trauma of child sexual abuse.

Everyone can benefit from eating foods containing MEG-3?. The Omega-3s contained in MEG-3? are beneficial to the overall good health of people of all ages.

In as early as after two weeks of daily servings, however the greatest benefit may be after 2 to 3 months of daily servings.

While it may be beneficial, only anecdotal evidence for canines exists. However small animal studies (rodent) have been performed and are published in mainstream scientific peer reviewed literature.

It is possible to grow olives in most regions of California. Olives are grown anywhere where the temperatures does not frequently fall below 20 degrees F any time during the winter. There are very large olive growing regions in the Central Valley as well as the North Sacramento Valley.

No, for oil the best maturity stage for ripe fruit flavor and good keeping quality is as the fruit is turning from yellow/green to purple on the outside skin and before the pulp turns black. Table olives are picked green and firm. But olives are also picked at all the other stages of ripeness depending on your desired style of oil.

After eating the pressure of a full stomach push everything in the sac of hernia up into the chest. The larger the hernia the more it will go up causing chest or abdominal pain, shortness of breath, or other symptoms. The part of the stomach that is entrapped in the chest becomes slow to empty, the ingested material causes nausea vomiting or regurgitation. Patients with hiatus hernia sometimes feels better after vomiting.