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If you have high cholesterol and drink a little extra virgin olive oil every day for a month, your resting heart rate might drop a bit and your lower blood pressure number might go down a little too — which is good for your heart.

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The study found that people with high cholesterol who ate extra virgin olive oil every day for four weeks had lower blood pressure and slower heart rates — just like the claim said.

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