the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada

invite you to attend

a luncheon and seminar on

Olive Oil and the Mediterranean Diet in North America

with Pino Posteraro,

 the celebrated chef and owner of Cioppino’s Restaurant

on September 28th, 2006

at the Renaissance Vancouver Hotel Harbouside1133 West Hastings, Coal Harbour

Programme

Lunch : 12.30 pm

Seminar 1.30 – 2.30 pm

Pure, extra virgin olive oil is not only a light and delicate addition to many wonderful dishes, it is one of the most health-promoting types of oils available.

Olive oil has been part of the human diet for more than 5000 years. These millennia of human experience plus modem research indicate that olive oil is beneficial to health and that we can safely include it in our diet. In fact, olive oil has been singled out as contributing to the health of Italian centenarians. But, to get the same health effects as the Italian centenarians, the oil has to be made the way they made it -  the way it is still made in Basilicata.

Olive oil is almost unique among oils in that it can be consumed in the crude form without refining. This has the effect of conserving all its vitamins, essential fatty acids, and other nutrients. Because it contains all these nutrients, including powerful antioxidants, real extra virgin olive oil is beneficial to health and protects us from damage by free radical oxidation. Cell membranes contain fatty acids that are highly susceptible to free radical damage. This damage produces lipid peroxides that can kill the cell. Real olive oil contains polyphenols, vitamin E, and other natural antioxidants that prevent this damage.

Iniziativa realizzata nell’ambito della Convenzione 2005 ICE/Regione Basilicata, stipulata ai sensi dell’Accordo di Programma con il Ministero del Commercio Internazionale e cofinanziata dall’Unione Europea – Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale

This event is financed under the agreement between ICE & Regione Basilicata, co-financed by the European Union and is part of the activities of SPRINT BASILICATA