Drink Olive Oil, Live To Be 120-Years-Old

Mariam Amash, an active inhabitant of a quaint Israeli village, makes sure to drink at least one glass of olive oil every day. And since she was born in 1888, she's had at least 43,800 glasses--roughly 2,737 gallons of olive oil.

Olive oil can help lower cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as regulate blood sugar level and knock out nasty free-radicals. More info can be found here. Apparently it has worked fairly well for Mariam, you know, seeing as she's been around since the Turkish Empire was in control.

With 120 grandchildren, 250 great-grandchildren, and 20 great-great-grandchildren, I bet she spends most of her time making out $10 checks.

--Spanno

Comments

[cb on February 20, 2008 at 01:31 PM]

Great post.

[on February 20, 2008 at 05:10 PM]

Sorry, if drinking olive oil makes me look like this 120 year-old woman, I'll pass.

[Suileman on February 20, 2008 at 05:53 PM]

How big is the glass?

[Hal on February 21, 2008 at 01:03 AM]

Why would anyone WANT to be 120 years old? Are her offspring and their offspring that wonderful then, that she'd want to be around them? Man, the idea is so EXHAUSTING.

[Spanno on February 21, 2008 at 08:25 AM]

A "glass" is estimated at 8 ounces.

[elizalex on February 21, 2008 at 08:50 AM]

I find this rather incredulous, considering there are 23 grams of fat in a tablespoon of olive oil, that would be around 1000 grams of fat per day. The average woman can only handle about 30 grams of fat per day without becoming obese. She would have died from obesity or liver toxicity trying to process that much fat. Perhaps she meant a cup a week??

[Smitch on February 25, 2008 at 07:15 PM]

Nice punchline.

[LARISSA on March 01, 2008 at 07:47 AM]

Mariam is my hero...I'm going to try drinking olive oil, too. I don't think I can do a glass but I'll try tablespoons of the stuff.
Who knows, maybe I'll live to be 120 years old, too.

[Lisa on March 01, 2008 at 08:54 AM]

She "said" she drinks a glass of olive oil a day. I say I don't eat sweets.....

I would like someone to confirm her actual consumption and what the rest of her diet looks like if she's consuming so many calories in oil. Who knows maybe at a cup a day it gets "used" efficiently by the body or goes through the digestive system such that the 1000 calories are not absorbed.

Really some scientest needs to get to the bottom of this before we all gain 2 pounds a week trying to live forever! And I am all for more olive oil in my diet for all the good reasons, I have just always been afraid of the calories and any other negative effects.

Educate us with new research.

Lisa

[john simpson on April 23, 2008 at 12:45 AM]

haha, there are people who live on more than 100 grams of fat per day and are very thin. It does not matter where the source of your calories come from...fat, carbs, protein...it only matters that you keep your calories low.

[ARTYA on July 08, 2008 at 07:45 AM]

YES...I BELIEVE!!! REAL. I DRINK OLIVE OIL EVERYDAY TOO.....TRYY IT...MAKE YOU FELL GOOD. PREMIUM EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL. MYSTERY OF OLIVE .

[PJ on July 09, 2008 at 06:37 PM]

All the people who keep commenting that they don't want to live to her age because of the way she looks are incredibly stupid and ignorant. Life is a gift, it is a blessing. When you see a bird flying in a clear blue sky, when you hear the beautiful ocean waves crashing, when you see the laugh of a child, or when you enjoy your favorite food or drink...do you actually stop and say "I am only enjoying this because I am young and beautiful"? Of course not, you are enjoying the "moment", which has nothing to do with how you look. This woman has been very blessed to have enjoyed 120 years of "moments", and is surrounded by friends and family who adore her. All of us can only wish to have such a wonderful life. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to drink some olive oil... =)

[Al-Pearl on September 11, 2008 at 02:24 PM]

bravo

[Tommie Vaughn on September 23, 2008 at 03:38 PM]

I have been taking olive oil ( about 3 spoons a day for some time now)I was experiencing a great deal of discomfort in my right side for some time until I started with this and drinking aloe vera along with it. The pain has ceased Thank you Jesus. I am still trying to understand how to beat the caffeine addiction. I have been off of coffee and energy drinks for about 3 months now. I can't wake up, however the problem in my side is gone. I had an appendectomy earlier in life so it wasn't an appendix problem. I believed it to be a digestive problem. Anyway the olive oil does work. The taste is a bit strange so if you don't like it straight you can always put it on your salads mixed with a sprinkle of lemon juice. It works for me, but as far as how old I will live remains to be seen. God Bless.

[Adam on October 22, 2008 at 09:36 AM]

Olive oil has healthy fats in it. Drinking a cup of animal fat every day would kill you. The human body loves omega 3 and 6 fatty acids.

[on November 16, 2008 at 11:09 AM]

Clears blood clots too

[michael on November 22, 2008 at 11:11 AM]

too much in our current societies do we consume pure animal fats without a proper balance of fish and plant fats. i applaud the writer and with the women blessed and good health:)

[on December 09, 2008 at 03:01 AM]

olive oil is tasty but cmon man are you seriously gonna drink that stuff? if I ever see anyone drink that i will knock it on the ground and run, then we will see the fresh legs vs. olive theory at full throttle! haha can't touch this dananana

[Rick on January 04, 2009 at 04:13 PM]

Great Post! I've been drinking shot glasses of the stuff for years. I'm only 21 now, but I hope to out live everyone that I know -- if only so I can spread horrible lies about them in the future after they've long since died.

[carlton on January 04, 2009 at 06:30 PM]

i know a lady with AIDS drink olive oil and she is heal

[boris c d on January 04, 2009 at 06:34 PM]

am from jamaica and i am drinking olive oil toooooo its helps my stomach problem,and my back pain,i sleep better,i know people with std drink of it and they have been heal today,

[boris c d on January 04, 2009 at 06:37 PM]

am from jamaica and i am drinking olive oil toooooo its helps my stomach problem,and my back pain,i sleep better,i know people with std drink of it and they have been heal today,

[tinahelter on January 17, 2009 at 09:37 PM]

okay...drinking olive oil does not cure aids or viral stds like herpes. NOTHING kills viruses. But there is a percentage of people that are genetically immune to aids because their body produces a certain more NK cells that others which destroys microbial invasions.

[John Moore on February 09, 2009 at 08:59 AM]

I have been drinking a tsp of xvirgin olive oil mixed with a tsp of red wine vinegar every day; I alternate the red wine vinegar with apple cider vinegar for variety. I haven't had my cholesterol tested since I started this regimen, but I am hopeful it will act to reduce it.

I know this will sound hard to believe: I awoke one morning with a terrific cramp in my calf. I got up and massaged the cramp away but was left with a slight limp because of the pain in the muscle. I had heard about olive oil as a pain reliever, so, I took some extra-virgin olive oil and massaged a bit into the muscle and not five minutes later the pain was gone. The effects lasted well into the afternoon.

[Jihad R. on February 26, 2009 at 04:56 PM]

Olive oil drastically improved my acne merely days after i only had 2 table spoons. The only bad think about drinking it is its goes down with a fight, in other words its pretty nasty, i gaged after the second spoonfull. God speed