On today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast, everybody always assumes that just because a bottle

says it's extra virgin, that it's an extra virgin olive oil. But there are a lot of misconceptions

when it comes to that. The grocery stores and the FDA don't heavily regulate what is being put out there. And so as consumers, you have to

be really careful because you may be paying for something thinking that you're getting an

extra virgin olive oil and getting all those health benefits when you're really not.

Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I am Courtney Swan,

your host.

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Today's episode is all about olive oil.

We dive into what makes it the healthiest fat, what to look for in an olive oil when you are buying it,

what's happening in Italy with the Italian mafia and kind of all over Europe and the cutting of different oils.

So you definitely want to tune in and make sure that you know how to find the highest quality best olive oil. We dive a little bit into

fats in general and why they are so important and so healthy for us. The low fat movement was

one of the worst things to ever happen to humanity. Seriously. Because what we did when we took

fat out of our diet was then we replaced it with sugar

because fat is what creates that mouth feel and it gives foods really, really good taste.

And without that taste, we needed to add in something to make it palatable to make it good,

like taste good. And so we replaced it with sugar. And as we now know, sugar is actually what wreaks

havoc on our cardiovascular system. And it leads to a whole slew of issues. Whereas fat,

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