Posted on 08/10/2015 3:59:38 AM PDT by huldah1776
If you think that sugar is the unhealthiest thing you can eat, you're wrong. Apparently, the Worst Food on the Planet Award should actually go to soybean oil, suggests new findings published in the journal PLoS One.
Setting up a sort of dietary cage match, researchers fed mice a series of diets each containing 40% fat. The fat in the first diet was primarily saturated and came from coconut oil, while the fat in the second diet was primarily unsaturated and came mostly from soybean oil. The researchers also fed mice two altered versions of the high-fat diets that also contained fructose.
The assumption was that the fructose-eating mice would pack on the most fat and develop the worst insulin resistance. But that's not what happened. Instead, the mice who ate the soybean oil diet without fructose gained the most weight9% more than the fructose-eating mice and a whopping 25% more than the mice who got their fat from coconut oil. Compared to their fructose-eating counterparts, the mice on the soybean oil diet also had fattier livers and more insulin resistanceboth signs of impending diabetes and metabolic syndrome.
"That was a surprise, given that most people think that unsaturated fatty acids [like those found in soybean oil] are supposed to be healthy," says lead study author Poonamjot Deol, Ph.D., a cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside. They're also everywhere. A full half of all the vegetable oil produced in the world is soybean oil. And since it's cheap, the stuff is used in endless packaged foods. It's also a favorite at restaurantsmany of which tout the fact that they use soybean oil right on their menus because it's perceived as healthy.
Deol and her colleagues aren't totally sure what makes soybean oil so horrible, but they guess that it could have something to do with the way the stuff influences genes that determine how the liver metabolizes fat. And other processed vegetable oils might not be much better. "We've actually tested corn oil, and we found that it was also causing more obesity than coconut oil, but not as much as soybean oil. We haven't tested canola yet," she says.
But how much weight can you actually give to a study that was done on mice? Actually, more than you'd think. The amount of fat and fructose in the rodents' diets were designed to mimic what the average U.S. adult eats on a daily basis. What's more, the genes in our livers and the genes in the livers of mice act fairly similarly. So if loads of soybean oil turns a mouse's liver to fat, it probably isn't great for us, either.
That's why, even though more research is needed to unveil the nitty gritty details of how soybean oil wrecks our health, it makes sense to cut back where you can, says Deol. So, avoid processed food that lists the stuff as an ingredient as much as possible. As for cutting it out altogether? It's worth a shot, but good luck. "It's so prevalent in our food system. If something says vegetable oil, it's most likely soybean oil, or soybean oil is a component," warns Deol.
/johnny
Olive oil: Keep in a dark place, away from any heat. It also loses over half its beneficial effects after 6 months.
Also make sure you check the labels as most Virgin Olive oil
is mixed with other oils to increase profits....
On stir frys and other high heat cooking, try avocado oil. Avocado oil is the highest heat oil on the market. When coconut oil gets too hot, it turns into trans fat.
Here’s the original paper. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t funded by the coconut oil industry. It wasn’t.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132672
It’s all pretty nasty stuff. They crush the seeds and then use a solvent to extract the oils, then steam off the solvent. Then they use lye (i.e. sodium hydroxide) to remove some of the bitter-tasting acids. Canola was bred from rapeseed, it is not exactly rapeseed. The reason I said sunflower is because sunflower is a seed and a closer match than soybean. An expeller-pressed oil (sunflower or canola) will be edible, perhaps odd-tasting, but probably healthy. Expeller-pressed soybean oil is nasty and has to be processed which is probably unhealhier but neutral tasting.
I encourage all to read "The Great Cholesterol Myth"
Tell it to the Japanese - they eat a ton of soy: sauce, natto, tofu, marble dofu....on and on. Doesn’t seem to be shortening their lives.
It’s like a combination issue of Soy with other factors.
Daily Mail UK ran a story about a week or two ago reporting (well, what passes for reporting at the DM) on a study where lard actually was found to be better than sunflower oil for frying food...shouldn’t be hard to look up.
I heard Donald Trump tweeted Megyn Kelly to go eat some rapeseed.
The GOPe were not impressed, and social media went nuts!
Film at 11:00!
Important Facts You Need to Know About Canola Oil:
1. It is not a food and was never intended for human consumption. Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in Canada from the Rapeseed Plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants.
2. By nature, rapeseed oil is toxic to humans and other animals and was never meant to be used for human consumption . The correct name for Canola oil is Lear oil (Low Erucic Acid Rape) or Rape Oil and is used mainly for lubricant and fuel sap, as a base for synthetic rubber, and is used as a substance for the glossy effect in magazines or other paper products. The word canola comes from Canada Oil and is not a naturally grown plant.
3. Why is it used? It is extremely cheap to grow and harvest. The Canadian government paid the FDA $50 million to have rapeseed registered and categorized as being safe for humans to consume, according to John Thomas book, Young Again.
4. It is toxic! and related to symptoms of Emphysema, Respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, and irritability. Rape seed oil is used in China for stir-frying and was found to emit cancer-causing chemicals from the smoke, causing lung cancer, according to the Wall Street Journal (June 7, 1995).
5. It causes blindness in animals and Mad Cow Disease! According to John Thomas book, Young Again, in 1986-1991 England and Europe fed rape seed to cows, pigs, and sheep who later went blind and began attacking people (Mad Cow Disease). After discontinuing the rape seed (canola oil) the attacks and blindness stopped. It was banned in Europe in 1991. The FDA is still allowing it to be used in thousands of products in the U.S. We are putting it in our bodies every day!! Wow that is certainly Scary!!
6. Research at the University of Florida-Gainesville, determined that as much as 4.6% of all fatty acids in Canola are trans isomers (plastic) due to the refining process. It has a tendency to inhibit the proper metabolism of foods and blocks our normal enzyme function, and could cause destruction of the myelitis sheath that surrounds our nerves, for protection. It is known as a Trans Acid, and many are labeled Hydrogenated or partially Hydrogenated oils. These should all be avoided and totally eliminated from your diet. The adverse health effect are cumulative. Many times it takes 10 years before symptoms manifest.
7. It is found in many processed foods, margarine, peanut butter, breads, and almost all potato chips.
8. It forms latex-like substances that causes red blood corpuscles to clump together.
9. Rats developed fatty degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals and thyroid glands. When the Canola oil was withdrawn from their diet, the deposits dissolved, but scar tissue remained on the organs.
10. Rape oil is a source of the chemical warfare agent mustard gas. It was banned after blistering the lungs and skins of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians during WWII. There have been recent reports that it was again used in the Gulf War.
11. Canola Oil is the #1 ingredient in toxic chemical pesticides according to the Health Ranger. The EPA has now officially classified it as bio-pesticide, meaning; having low chronic toxicities, but no studies have been performed on the toxic effects on human beings.
12. Canola (Rapeseed) is on the 10 Top list of GMOs, according to NaturalNews. It is one of the most chemically altered foods in the U.S. diet chemically removed from rapeseed, deodorized and altered.
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/12-lets-get-real-facts-about-canola-oil/
I only did it until I needed glasses...
Right up your alley!
We haven’t used any oils but coconut and olive oil for 2 or 3 years now. And I save bacon grease in a jar in the fridge for sauteeing cabbage and other veg.
I remember when the government was telling us that so called, “tropical oils” like coconut and palm oil, were the worst kinds of bad. Now coconut oil is a superfood.
Rapeseed oil. Heavily GMO... not a real good substitute for soybean squeezins. Cook in tallow or lard, olive or coconut oil, butter.... all better, and real foods.
Same here, although with Gerson I can’t have the bacon grease. I miss it, but value my health too much to cheat even a little! In seventeen more months we’ll see.
Ah, but they may be having issues because of their lust for disgusting aphrodisiacs. Ever wonder why?
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