Drinking the [extra virgin] olive oil was exactly the same sensation I felt in Paul's study on ibuprofen. When I returned to Philadelphia, I poured a small cup for Paul and asked him to taste. He realized the same throat-sting. |
It shouldn't be anything like 1998. What we're seeing right now are basically fast-moving grass fires that are relatively easy to control. |
It was such a contrast there - all we had seen on the news and in the papers was flooding, but we went to an area with a real potential for wildfire. |
So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last year - a lot of fuel for wildfires and drought conditions, |
So what they have out there is similar to what we had here in Florida after four hurricanes last year - a lot of fuel for wildfires and drought conditions. |
Some media reports have associated consuming more extra virgin olive oil with relieving a headache (another inflammatory body response), but that's silly. |
Some olive oils are even rated as zero-cough, one-cough or two-cough. But you don't feel the sensation until it is deep in your throat. It's not like hot peppers, which burn everywhere. |
There is a throat sting associated with it. |