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Tips:
Quick-cooking oats offer the same nutrients as the old-fashioned kind, but contain added sodium.
If you're trying to cut calories, oat bran is a better choice than oatmeal: a cup of bran has 87 calories; a cup of oats has 145. They both contain the same nutrients.
Because they are high in polyunsaturated fat, oats can turn rancid quickly. Store them in an airtight container in a cool, dark place and use them within a few months.
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SMART MOVE
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''As far as I'm concerned, you can take the whole food pyramid and just pour olive oil over it," said an only-half-joking Walter Willet, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, at a conference on the Mediterranean diet.
Olive Oil
Lowers dangerous LDL cholesterol
Helps prevent blood clots
Lowers blood pressure
Helps prevent heart disease
Reduces cancer risk
In Mediterranean countries it's been a top healing food for thousands of years. But in the U.S., olive oil was until recently considered just another fat, no better than butter.
Then scientists began puzzling over the fact that Greece, Spain, southern France, and Italy had unusually low rates of heart disease despite a high fat intake. On closer examination of the Mediterranean diet, they found their solution: people in those countries have a high intake of monounsaturated fatalmost all of it olive oilwhereas the Western diet is high in saturated fat.
Since that discovery, olive oil has undergone a dramatic change of statusfrom no-no to health necessity.

 
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