Although vegetable oil has a healthy sounding name, it's NOT made
from vegetables...As you might already know, vegetable oil actually
comes from any combination of corn oil, soybean oil, canola oil,
safflower oil, and/or cottonseed oil, ALL of which are absolutely
terrible for your health. In fact, they are downright deadly, and I'm not exaggerating. Here's why...
You already KNOW that trans fats are deadly, so I won't go into all
of the science as to why trans fats kill you and DAMAGE your cell
membranes in your body...leading to all sorts of scary health problems
like cancer, obesity, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and more.
Knowing these facts, I'm sure you already know to stay away from
foods that contain partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. You've heard
that a million times before.
However, what you probably DON'T know is that even non-hydrogenated
vegetable oils (all vegetable oils are refined) also contain some trans
fats due to the extremely high heat, solvents, and pressure they are
exposed to during the refining process. And yes, this includes
so-called "expeller pressed" vegetable oils as well.
All of this high heat and high pressure processing along with the use
of hexane solvents actually forces some of the polyunsaturated content
of vegetable oils (yes, even so-called "healthy" canola oil) to be
transformed into trans fats and something even worse that we'll talk
about in a minute called "MegaTrans".
According to Dr. Mary Enig, PhD, and Nutritional Biochemist, "Although
the Canadian government lists the trans fat content of canola at a
minimal 0.2 percent, research at the University of Florida at
Gainesville, found trans fat levels as high as 4.6 percent in commercial
liquid canola oil".
And this is the garbage that the government and giant food
conglomerates are marketing to you as a "healthy oil"! Don't fall for
it.
The healthiest ratio from the scientific literature appears to be a
ratio of 2:1 or even 1:1 for your omega-6 to omega-3 ratio. However,
most vegetable oils skew your ratio as high as 20:1 or even 30:1 in
favor of harmful inflammatory omega-6 fats. And worse yet, these omega-6 fats are NOT the innocent type found in nuts, they are the "mutant" damaged MegaTrans type that harm the tissues of your body.
This Omega fat imbalance can be YET another reason why vegetable oils
lead to heart disease, cancer, obesity, and many other degenerative
diseases that WILL shorten your life significantly if you don't cut out
the vegetable oils ASAP. As a quick note, the solution to all of these major
problems with vegetable oils is to use healthy oils like coconut oil,
olive oil, macadamia oil, avocado oil, and grass-fed butter, all of
which are MUCH healthier than vegetable oils and don't cause any of the
problems we've described in this section of the article.
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