Restoring The Balance

Beware of mass campaigns in general when it comes to your health. Such is the campaign going on as we speak to convince people that vegetable oils are healthy. The reality is that soybean, cotton seed, canola and other seed oils are toxic to the body. They are involved in the modern diseases of diabetes and infertility and arthritis. The overload of the omega six seed oils also takes over the immune system and contributes to leaky gut and irritable bowel disease.

The original mass marketing of these types of oils came from the waste product and cotton, and was developed into the Crisco so-called miracle, cooking fat. The American Heart Association jumped on this which led to a dramatic rise in cardiac disease. Part of this was a trade in your butter for cholesterol free margin, which was simply empty calories depriving your hormones of fats that they needed. In fact, a case can be made that the use of seed oils contributed more to heart disease than smoking, which peaked out somewhere between 1910 and 1940.

To be fair seed oils are not harmful by nature, but only when processed. These damaged fats become trapped in cells and damage your DNA among other measures. Although you will not tend to read about hexane on most of the labels, this is usually routinely employed to extract oils from the soy beans and canola and other seeds. Yet it does not appear on the label. It is quite toxic to liver. An equally damaging process is known as hydrogenation, which transfers the liquid oils into the solid fats. This increases the very damaging trans fatty acids. These simply cannot be processed by human body.

Detoxification and replacement become essential to maintain the right balance of appropriate fats. Healthy sources include grass fed butter, grass fed beef, extra-virgin coconut oil, and cold pressed olive oil. Even pasture fed lard is making a nice comeback. Finally, be wary of the temperatures that you cook at because even good oils become toxic when they are above their smoke point. This is because they shattered into very damaging free radicals.

The worst thing that one of the popular fast-food joints did when trying to make people happy about their meal was to replace the beef tallow used for French fries with vegetable oil. Forget the taste difference, which is far better to begin with, but the damage done by this product alone is enormous.