By the way, people are misled when they say or write on labels
oils that "does not contain cholesterol," because the vegetable oil itself can not be with cholesterol, it's not animal fats!
It is important to know that each product must carry its own particular benefit. So, the useful properties of the oil depend on its composition. For example, there are two types of oil - refined and unrefined. But think for yourself, which one could be more useful? After all, refining is a process, literally, the destruction of all the beneficial substances in the oil. Mostly it is necessary in order to make the product more attractive for a large number of consumers. But why such oil is necessary, when there is another option to buy more healthy and necessary for the body? Such as unrefined. This oil contains all the useful properties and all those necessary substances for the treatment and improvement of the body's immunity.
In vegetable oil contains essential fatty acids, which are necessary for the body. There are many kinds of vegetable oil. Sold olive and sunflower, peanut and sesame, palm and corn, coconut vegetable oil.
The most precious and nutritious, of course, is olive oil . It is obtained both from flesh (50-70%) and bones (about 20%) of the fruit of olive tree - olives. The native land of the olive is the South-Eastern part of the Mediterranean, where it has been cultivated since ancient times. Olive oil is almost the largest part of unsaturated fats , which help maintain a normal balance of vital elements in the body. Just such an oil helps normalize the digestive system and improves the activity of the stomach. It is an excellent solvent in the preparation of injection solutions of camphor, preparations of sex hormones and their analogs and some other drugs. In recent years, olive oil is used in the manufacture of a variety of cosmetics, such as shampoos and even hair dyes.
The next most valuable oil is sunflower oil. Despite the fact that in Russia you can meet whole hefty fields with this plant and think that it is from the very beginning here and sprouts, the birthplace of sunflower is North America.
Sunflower seeds contain up to 35% fatty oil, in addition, many carbohydrates (24-27%), protein substances (13-20%) and organic acids.
This oil is very popular in home treatment. With the help of it, many diseases, such as frontitis, headaches, chronic diseases of the stomach, heart, intestines, liver, lungs, encephalitis, toothaches, female diseases are treated. Just unrefined sunflower oil is used most often in procedures for cleaning the body. For example, you can purify the blood of toxins. With this procedure, sunflower oil is not a substitute. The recipe is as follows: in the morning before eating, 1 tablespoon of oil soak in the mouth like a lollipop for 15-20 minutes, then spit out, rinse your mouth with water.
If you do this before each meal and at bedtime, the effectiveness of the procedure will be even more refined. It is also fashionable to improve the process of cleaning the body of toxins, if you remove a large part of them from the intestine with the enema.
Well, less significant types of oils, which can rightly take the third place - it's corn, palm, coconut and the like.
The therapeutic effect of corn oil is determined by the complex effect of its components. Linoleic acid, whose percentage in oil to 48, acts as a vitamin F - accelerates the breakdown and removal of lipids from the body. Phytosterol - inhibits the absorption of cholesterol from the gastrointestinal tract and vitamin E, which also inhibits the exchange of proteins, prevents the permeability and fragility of capillaries, the degenerative change of nerve cells. This oil is also prescribed for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis.
Palm and coconut oil is valued in tropical countries, but it is not used as much as medicinal, rather as a food and industrial raw material. In our country it comes from imports for industrial purposes, for example, the production of margarine, perfumes and cosmetics, soap and soap, etc., and as components for ointment and suppository bases. Coconut oil is suitable for maintaining healthy and normal skin, for hair care.
Here's how important vegetable oil is, the useful properties of which are sure to find application in your kitchen and in the medicine cabinet!