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I was watching some videos on this theory, which they backed up with scientific studies.
But the consumption of vegetable oils (soybean, corn, canola, cottonseed, peanut, safflower, sunflower, grape seed, rice bran, etc.), particularly when they are heated up to cook or fry food, is allegedly incredibly dangerous to your health and longevity.
One video even stated that the only thing you could do worse to your body than consume vegetable oil is to smoke or drink alcohol.
They explained that our obesity epidemic started when we moved away from butter and lard in the mid 20th century and started using vegetable oil.
The problem is that so many foods sneakily contain vegetable oils, especially restaurants. The best way to completely cut these out of your diet is to prepare your own meals at home, using recipes so that you are 100% sure they don’t have these oils in there.
Anyway, does anybody out there know about this theory, and if you do, do you believe it wholeheartedly?
I think it is an extreme take on oils that does more harm than good. People should just stop eating fried foods at the rate they are. Fried foods are calorie laden gut bobs that are nutritionally deficient for the most part.
What you need to do is site the studies in your post. Find the links and post them. If the studies are not peer reviewed they are pretty much useless. They are handy however for selling books. Chances are there are some Doctors with books about this very thing and they really want to sell them to you.
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It's the fried foods, not the oils themselves. Consider what is cooked in those oils: French fries and tots, donuts, hush puppies,
funnel cakes, processed chicken nuggets, potato and corn chips, corn dogs, churros.
Anyway, does anybody out there know about this theory, and if you do, do you believe it wholeheartedly?
Wholeheartedly? Nope. If you are someone who chooses to eat a lot of food saturated in vegetable oil you're probably going to end up with more health problems than someone who doesn't. Eating healthy is a matter of balance and moderation, not all or nothing no matter what some pundit says. Lots of "authorities" know now to lie with statistics.
What I believe wholeheartedly: watching videos about this or that food is better or worse than that or this other food, can cause more health problems than just - eating in moderation.
I believe this. My late husband fried everything he and we ate. He also smoked like a chimney and drank. By age 30 he was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease but probably had it while he was in elementary school when he was diagnosed with stomach ulcers. I don't know what his diet consisted of before we met, but the Crohn's diagnosis should have been an eye opener. Every night, he consumed fried food. At the age of 63, after a lifetime of pain, he was diagnosed with renal cancer, and dead within 3 weeks. If you beat your body up it will give up earlier than if you hadn't. I always objected to the frying of food, but his gastroenterologist wouldn't back me up and he used this against me for decades.
From what I've read (sorry, no citations), it's the processing of some oils that's the problem. They are subjected to high heat, solvents, and bleaches.
Cold pressed olive, avocado, and coconut oils are supposedly okay, but canola and safflower oils are bad.
Health concerns about canola oil are unfounded. Canola oil, which is extracted from the seeds of the canola plant, is generally recognized as safe by the Food and Drug Administration.
Misinformation about canola oil may stem from the fact that the canola plant was developed through crossbreeding with the rapeseed plant. Rapeseed oil contains very high levels of erucic acid, a compound that in large amounts can be toxic to humans. Canola oil, however, contains very low levels of erucic acid.
Canola oil is also low in saturated fat and has a high proportion of monounsaturated fat, which makes it a healthy and safe choice when it comes to cooking oils.
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