Dietary Fat: The Good, The Bad & The Necessary
food over 50

Series host David Jackson prepares two exemplary recipes in the studio kitchen. First, a low fat open-face burger and then grilled ahi tuna steak with herbaceous olive oil sauce, both illustrating how easy it is to cut saturated fats, emphasize healthier mono-unsaturated fats and not lose a speck of flavor in the process. David visits Thom Curry, owner of Temecula Olive Oil Company. Thom is on the board of the California Olive Oil Council and a member of the C.O.O.C. Certification Tasting Panel. He explains the health benefits, flavor profiles, culinary attributes and even marketing stratagems of olive oil, while showing David how top quality olives are picked and pressed into green/gold elixir. David and Elizabeth also get together for another "Second Helpings" segment of nutritionally vital Q&A about dietary fats, after which he closes the episode on his bike with another "Earn What You Eat" fitness message.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 108

About Food Over 50:

The mission of the cooking series FOOD OVER 50 is to inform, instruct and entertain America's late Gen-X, Boomer and senior audiences with artistic and appetizing preparations of wide-ranging international recipes that are nutritionally enticing.

Hosted by David Jackson, FOOD OVER 50 is primarily taped in the scenic Mojave Desert, with cooking segments taking place in the kitchen, and select seafood recipes shot at Jackson's quaint seaside cottage in The Outer Hebrides in Scotland.

The series also provides viewers with their own personal nutritionist.

During each episode, registered dietician Elizabeth Kelsey joins David to critique recipes from a health perspective and emphasize the importance of cooking fresh food.




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