A Different Look at
Rue McClanahan
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Freya: Rue, tell us some of your health tips for
growing old gracefully.
Rue: Oh, everybody knows the right diet. You
know, you stay away from junk foods, greasy foods
and sugar, basically fats in general. You do have to
have some good oil, and a little olive oil here and
there. There are various good oils for you. You
shouldn’t, by the way, cook with olive oil because
it turns carcinogenic above a certain temperature. That temperature is below what you have to
heat olive oil to, in order to cook with it. So, you
should be cooking with a vegetable oil like canola
oil. Canola oil is safe. Olive oil is safe at room
temperature for use on a salad and that is great.
Most people don’t know that.
Freya: I have never heard of that.
Rue: It is not a well-known fact. People have
been cooking with it for a long time.
Freya: Any other interesting facts like the olive oil
tip that no one has heard about?
Rue: Well, do you know that it is advisable to
have 4 almonds a day or maybe 4 walnuts? They
are very good for you. I also use some wonderful
sweeteners. There is one that comes from cactus.
It’s actually cactus syrup. It is sweet like honey.
Then, there’s “Stevia” which is what I use for
sweetening almost everything. It comes from the
leaf