July 31, 2017

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The Ugly Truth: Vegetable Oils Are Bad

 

 

Veggie oils come  from seeds like the rapeseed (canola oil) soybean (soybean oil), corn, sunflower, safflower, and so on. They were almost non-existent in our diets till the early 1900s when brand-new chemical processes permitted them to be drawn out. Unlike butter or coconut oil, these veggie oils cannot be drawn out simply by pressing the oil out naturally. The oil must be chemically pulled out, deodorized, and bleached. Hexane, a chemical related to gasoline is commonly used. Really ? Vegetable oils are some of the  most chemically changed food items in our diet regimens, yet they are promoted as healthy and balanced. The real scary thing is that they are practically in all processed foods. 

 

Is Vegetable Oil Healthy? 

 

 

Veggie oils are discovered in practically every refined food, from salad condiments to mayo to conventional nuts and seeds. Primal Kitchen makes the only readily  available mayo on the marketplace today that does not use vegetable oil. It is the only mayo I use and it makes the base of a lot of my cooking. They use avocado oil which tastes delicious and is safe for you.

The human body has  97% saturated and monounsaturated fat.  Only 3 %  of the fat in the human body is polyunsaturated. Veggie oils contain very high levels of polyunsaturated fats. Unfortunately  these oils have been replacing a lot of the  healthy saturated fats in our diets(like butter) since  the 1950s. Why is it that butter consumption has gone way down, vegetable oil consumption way up, and heart disease has gotten worse ? 

The body needs fats for cell building blocks and hormones. If we only feed our body polyunsaturated fats rather than the saturated fats it needs, then it has to use those polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in our cells. 

The trouble is that PUFA’s are highly unstable and  oxidize  in our bodies. These oxidized fats create inflammation as well as mutation in cells. Worse yet, if you are a man or non-menstruating woman you have higher  body iron levels which speeds up the oxidation process. This is one reason men have heart attacks before women. It is also a reason why I donate donate blood quarterly. You can read more about that here. 

In arterial cells, these mutations create inflammation that could block arteries. When these fats are integrated into skin cells, their anomaly creates skin cancer. If these oils get into reproductive tissue, some evidence suggests that this can spur issues like endometriosis and also polycystic ovarian syndrome. Nature does not create bad fats. We have adapted to the fats found in nature over hundreds of thousands of years. The majority of animal fats are saturated and monounsaturated.  The body is mostly  made up of saturated and monounsaturated fats, and those types of fats are the ones that should be the majority of your diet.

 

 

 Reasons Why Vegetable Oils Can be Harmful

 Vegetable Oils are Unnatural in Large Amounts

 

 Refined seed oils like soybean oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, canola oil, cottonseed oil, safflower oil as well as a few others 
 aren’t really oils made from vegetables.  The high unnatural quantity Omega-6 polyunsaturated fats are dangerous.
This does NOT apply to healthy and balanced plant oils like olive oil or coconut oil, which are very great for you.

We didn’t begin generating veggie oils till about a hundred years back. Between the years 1909 and 1999, the usage of soybean oil increased a thousandfold and  currently provides  7% of calories in the US diet. The bottom line is  humans were not  exposed to these oils till  recently on a transformative scale and we have not evolved the ability to deal with them. 

 

Vegetable Oils Mess up The Fatty Acid Composition of The Body’s Cells

 

An essential fatty acid is one the body can not create. Omega-6 and  Omega-3 are two of those fats. You have  to obtain these fats from your diet. These two fats exist in nature in a certain ratio to each other. Our ancestors had Omega-6: Omega-3 ratio  around 4:1 to 1:2. Today, it is as high as 16:1 generally, mostly due to our vegetable oil consumption.

Polyunsaturated fats often tend to react with oxygen, which could trigger domino effect, damaging other structures as well as probably even essential frameworks like DNA. These fats also sit in our cell membranes. Their oxidation can raise unsafe oxidative chain reactions causing structural damage.

Excessive usage of veggie oils leads to real structural modifications within our cells and are one of the root causes of inflammation.  Omega-6 and Omega-3 fatty acids need to exist in a certain ratio and  people have to eat them in a specific balance so that those essential fatty acids can  operate efficiently. Excess Omega-6s in our cell membranes are vulnerable to harmful chain reactions which cause chronic disease.

 

Vegetable Oils Contribute to Inflammation

 

Eicosanoids  are modified fatty acids that sit in the cell membranes. They play a vital role in bodily functions like cellular signaling and inflammation. Pain killers like ibuprofen  hinder the eicosanoid paths as well as minimize swelling.

You need swelling and inflammation to  heal from injury but having persistent, systemic inflammation throughout your body is bad. Eicosanoids made from Omega-6s are pro-inflammatory, while those made from Omega-3s are anti-inflammatory.

These different fatty acids work opposite each other. The more Omega-6 you have, the  more Omega-3 you require. The less Omega-6 you have, the less Omega-3 you require. People eating a Western diet(standard American Diet) have way too much Omega-6 in their diet and this is usually from vegetable oil consumption. The more Omega-6s you eat, the  more systemic inflammation you will  have with higher chances of chronic disease such as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimers, etc.

Vegetable Oils Are Loaded With Trans Fats

Trans fats are unsaturated fats that are very toxic and are linked with diseases like heart problems, cancer, diabetes mellitus and excessive weight.

European governments around the globe were the first to do something about trans fat. They banned them or  set regulations to decrease the trans fat content of their foods. In the United States it took decades for us to catch up. The lobbyists and congress basically just ignored people who were raising the alarm like Dr. Mary G. Enig, PhD. She stuck to her guns and was validated years after. 

It is  an unknown reality is that vegetable oils frequently consist of massive amounts of trans fats. One research study found that  soybean and canola oils had  0.56% to 4.2% of the fatty acids in them were hazardous trans fats.  Trans fats are highly toxic as well as related to multiple illness. Heating these oils can increase the trans fat quantity by a factor of 10. Watch the video above to see what happens.

 

Vegetable Oils  Raise Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

 

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Saturated fats were once considered to be principal cause of this, however more recent studies prove that they are safe. Currently the focus is  on veggie oils.

Several randomized controlled trials have checked out the results that vegetable oils can have on cardiovascular illness. If you consider observational studies, you discover an extremely strong correlation.

This chart is from one research where the Omega-6 fatty acid in the  blood was outlined against the danger of fatality from heart disease . You could see the USA sitting there on top right, with one of the highest levels Omega-6 and the most  fatalities from coronary heart disease.

Some research has showed that polyunsaturated fats lower the threat of cardiovascular disease. This is the research that the American Heart Association is supporting. Might have to do with all the money the vegetable oil companies have donated to the AHA.  One  problem is that they do not make the difference between Omega-3s and  Omega-6s, which is absolutely crucial. Dr Cate Shanahan has another excellent explanation for this in her book Deep Nutrition. Basically the PUFA’s have damaged the lipoproteins so much from oxidation that they have become unrecognizable to receptors in our body so we think there are less of them. Those damaged PUFA’s go around causing chain reaction oxidation which causes even more damage.

Bottom line is that there is evidence from both randomized controlled tests and observational studies that veggie oils could increase the risk of cardio disease.

Why Vegetable Oils Should Not Be Part of Your Diet

 

The actual suggestion that veggie oils are  better than saturated fats  comes from the belief that they lower total and LDL cholesterol, so they probably decrease our general danger of cardiovascular disease. This  implies if we switch out butter, meat and  lard for vegetable oils, which are all  inflammatory polyunsaturated fats, our risk of heart disease will go down.

Yet if we take a look at human history, it is just in the last couple of decades where our consumption of vegetable oils went up and we are much sicker for that. Wild meat and also grass-fed beef contain  7 times as much omega 3 fats as industrial farm animals which have nearly none. Essentially all the beef  your great grandparents ate were pasture-raised, organic, grass-fed and had no hormones or antibiotics. There was simply no other type of meat to consume.

Introducing refined oils into our diet as well as moving far from grass-fed and wild animals raised our omega 6 fat intake. Consumption of corn, soy, cottonseed as well as canola oils increased, while consumption of omega 3 fats have  drastically decreased. Because of this  many Americans are lacking in these crucial omega 3 fats.

Taking in way too many omega 6 fats likewise boosts the likelihood of  psychological disease, suicide, as well as murder. In fact, studies have revealed a link of psychological diseases with inflammation in the mind. Dr. Joseph Hibbeln from the National Institutes of Health has actually looked into the impact of omega 6 and omega 3 fats on our psychological wellness. You can read about his research here. 

As you could see, a diet high in omega 6 fats is not excellent for optimal health. We can not blame ourselves for this disaster. A lot of us were educated to use these vegetable oils(includes margarine) at a young age. Unfortunately, this has brought us  to the worst epidemic of chronic disease ever in the history of mankind. We’ve got to move away from these inflammatory fats found in vegetable oils.

 

Are Vegetable Oils More Dangerous Than Trans Fats?

 

 

Trans fats are  low-cost to produce and  last a long period of time. Trans fats provide foods a desirable taste as well as appearance.  Numerous countries like  Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada have restricted using trans fats in food service facilities.

Trans fats elevate your bad  cholesterol  and reduce your good cholesterol . If you consume trans fat you have a higher risk of stroke and heart disease. It’s likewise related to a higher risk of establishing type 2 diabetic issues.

Scientists were already suspicious in the 1950’s that trans fat was dangerous to your health. In the 1980 Mary Enig testified in front of congress about the dangers of trans fat and was ignored. If you think your government really cares about your health more than the money corporations are paying them think about cigarettes and asbestos and how long it took to correct that. If something is bad for your health wouldn’t you prefer to know about it now ?

Trans fats are everywhere including deep-fried foods like doughnuts, baked products including cakes, pie crusts, biscuits, frozen pizza, cookies,  as well as stick margarine’s and various other spreads. You can identify the amount of trans fats in a certain packaged food by looking at the food label. Nevertheless, products can be noted as “0 grams of trans fats” if they consist of 0 grams to less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serving. Manufacturers have decreased serving sizes so they can say 0 grams of trans fat on the label when the reality is that there is trans fat. Other ways they can lie to you is by  describing trans fats as “partly hydrogenated oils.”

So the question is trans fats more dangerous than vegetable oils is really a trick question. Heated vegetable oils turn into trans fat. By now you know the dangers of trans fat. Start reading labels and improve your health by eliminating all vegetable oils from your diet. 

Additional reading:
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Your Body When You Eat Trans Fat?
Never Eat Vegetable Oil or Margarine