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 weight—9% 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 resistance—both 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 restaurants—many 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.
Good luck.
We only use organic bacon so we have only a teensy amount of bacon grease. It just ‘makes’ sauteed greens taste southern. I also use olive oil when we haven’t afforded bacon in a while.
Japanese eat mainly fermented soy. Fermenting seems to eliminate some of the really bad actor compounds.
Soybeans are not human food
Good thing Chinese people aren’t human.
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People were duped ala globull warming data omission style - about dietary fats. Animal based fats are the healthiest for us. The vegetable fats are not natural for us to eat in that form, and many must be chemically processed out of vegetables. Thats how’you get transfats, hydrogenated veg oils.
Naturally’occurring fats in/from animal’products are the best for people.
And as for soy, not good for men, it mimics female hormones, estrogen mimicker. Not a big issue for women.
Tofu is a staple and is not fermented. It’s coagulated soy milk curds - similar to cheese in that way.
Soy in females with a family history of breast cancer may increase the chances of BC appearing and the severity of the cancer. Still not a clear study I have seen. But empirical evidence seems to bear it out in the US.
And Tofu is, if urban legends are to be believed, what Japanese wives feed their husbands if they desire a little less marital action...
No, that's actually what wedding cake is for.
badump-chik
That being said: My grandfather smoked for 80 years, mostly unfiltered, he died from a misdiagnosis... bad heart value..
So your saying he died because he smoked. I’m sure he was included in the stats “deaths caused from smoking”.
Just like everyone who has ever smoked is included in lung cancer deaths.
Just like anyone who has ever smoked is included in “death from heart disease.”
My F.I.L who hadn’t smoked in 25 years was diagnosed with bladder cancer. According to his Doctor, caused by smoking.
M.I.L whose mother died at age 92 “I knew those cigarettes would kill her one day!”
Smoking is certainly not good for you. But damn!
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This is actually not new.
Its been common knowledge for 20 years.
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Common enough to get 92 replies on the same day I shared the death of a Green Beret and he is honored with 8.
Not sure about the significance of that.
I don't know what the death certificate says, but I do know he had a persistent minor cough for about a year. His doctor prescribed antibiotics because he though he had a cold or the flu..
He was finalized hospitalized because his lungs were filling with fluid...
He actually had a bad heart value which was progressively getting worse over time, letting fluid back into his lungs, by the time he was correctly diagnosed, it was too late and he was 92 yo and a replacement value wasn't in the works...
His lungs were clear of any cancer...
Basically his idiot doctor killed him...
not congruent logical misstatement. wouldn’t say it was common knowledge due to large response.
Soy has been kicked around here since the site was born.
How old is the work of Drs Otoboni?
Interesting - I’ll have to ask my Japanese wife about that - I’m sure she’ll get a laugh out of it.
I had a Japanese coworker who swore up and down that was the ‘use’ for tofu in Japan :P
bkmk
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