Research
Macro partitioning
Replacing saturated fats with monounsaturated fats (specifically from virgin olive oil) improves cardiovascular risk profiles by lowering LDL cholesterol and triglycerides while raising HDL cholesterol.
Swap your saturated fats (like butter or fatty meats) with virgin olive oil. This specific swap has been shown to lower bad cholesterol (LDL) by about 7% and improve your overall heart health profile compared to low-fat, high-carb diets.
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The substitution of a high-MUFA diet for an average American diet lowered total and LDL (low density lipoproteins)-cholesterol levels by 5·5% and 7%, respectively, while HDL (high density lipoproteins)-cholesterol levels are higher and triglycerides are lower on a high-MUFA as compared with low fat-high carbohydrate diet [6].
Why this rating
Based on multiple observational studies, ecological analyses (Seven Countries Study), and clinical trials cited.
Source
International conference on the healthy effect of virgin olive oil
Jaen · European Journal of Clinical Investigation · 2005
DOI 10.1111/j.1365-2362.2005.01516.x
narrative_reviewCited 295×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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