Healthy Eating Tip: Using Olive Oil

A crucial part of any well-rounded diet includes one or two tablespoons of olive oil a day in foods like salad dressing.
However, one thing to keep in mind about olive oil is that you should not fry foods in it. If you take a healthy fat and you fry it—if it reaches its smoking point—then you actually are oxidizing it.
When you oxidize it, you actually damage the fats and you lose a lot of the benefit. Rather than putting the oil in the pan and heating it, a better method is to put the food in the oil first and then add it to a heated pan.

That's a wonderful way of reducing the amount of oxidation that occurs.