The story of contaminants are not relics. They are current events. Kennedy's focus on food oils is a natural continuation of the trend to keep our food safe.
Excellent article. Although I use organic oils, I have avoided them due to the bad news about seed oils. Yet I found when I did use them on occasion, I felt better. This all makes sense.
Cook with plain beef tallow or lard if you are not religiously constrained. Use lower heat cooking methods. Avoid high heat frying and deep fat frying. (Yeah yeah we know that means no more popcorn chicken, fish and chips, onion rings or french fries, sorry.) Use ghee (clarified butter that does not need refrigeration because the whey is removed). Use unrefined coconut oil, unrefined palm oil, unrefined sesame oil, unrefined olive oil. Avocado oil is often touted as a good sub for olive oil, but it is very hard to keep it fresh once it is processed out of the pulp and seed of the avocado fruit. Discard any rancid smelling fats, they are oxidized and harmful when eaten. Maybe buy smaller quantities at a time so you use it up before it goes off. Never cook with fragile, perishable omega3 oils like flax or chia. Keep them cold and use them for dips and salad dressings.
Yes they are BS industrialised toxic crap and people should avoid them where possible, if only to lower their day to day toxic burden. But letting the political animals turn this into a platform to explain the dramatic lowering of average life expectancy, the huge drop in fertility (even in developing countries),the rapid rise of neurological anxiety mental health issues, and the excess obesity, chronic disease.
Its the frigging LIGHTING.
NIR deficient lifestyles, non-native blue light tech- literally tells your body the wrong signals. It says store fat, and don't repair the daily damage.
When the cells have sufficient structured water around/in them (which we make in NIR light), it stops toxins from getting into the cell and or mitochondria in the first place. 😐🤨
Brillant reframing of seed oils as structural contagions rather than debating linoleic acid nutrient trials. The gap between Mozaffarian's purified-FA studies and Kennedy's industrial-processing critique is the whole story here. What gets missed is that the CVD literature test nutrients under idealized conditons, not the oxidation burdens and solvent residues that actually ride throgh the food system.
Brilliant framing of these oil disasters as 'contagions' with shared infrastucture logic. The part that really sticks out is how each crisis only got addressed after mass casualties rather than preventative regulation. The tension between the cardiometabolic meta-analyses showing benefits of linoleic acid and the industrial contamination argument is wild since those RCTs basically evaluate purified nutrients under controlled settings, not the real-world oxidatio products and solvent residues that ride the seed-oil distribution channel.
While seed oils are a significant health issue, the linoleic acid and preformed arachidonic acid content of animal products may turn out to be the larger contributor to ill health. (web search - Hulbert The under-appreciated fats of life.
I urge the scientifically curious who read this comment to do these web searches:
Anna Haug Iindividual Variation
Anna Haug Animal Products
omeg-3/6 ratio endocannabinoid system
Chip Paul Experts sound the alarm
The importance of a balanced ω-6 to ω-3 ratio 2016
Very important topic. Cooking oil is one of the most important things to consider when planning a good diet. I've been following Ayurveda (the oldest continuous system of natural health and healing) since the 1980's. Ayurveda recommends organic grass-fed ghee (clarified butter) made from organic grass-fed milk. It is easily made at home or purchased at a few specialty stores. When used in specific treatments ghee is one of the tools to successfully eliminate environmental toxins from the body. It easily penetrates the tissues and fat soluble toxins are attracted to it and then eliminated from the body thru feces and urine.
Excellent article. Although I use organic oils, I have avoided them due to the bad news about seed oils. Yet I found when I did use them on occasion, I felt better. This all makes sense.
what oils should I use?
Cook with plain beef tallow or lard if you are not religiously constrained. Use lower heat cooking methods. Avoid high heat frying and deep fat frying. (Yeah yeah we know that means no more popcorn chicken, fish and chips, onion rings or french fries, sorry.) Use ghee (clarified butter that does not need refrigeration because the whey is removed). Use unrefined coconut oil, unrefined palm oil, unrefined sesame oil, unrefined olive oil. Avocado oil is often touted as a good sub for olive oil, but it is very hard to keep it fresh once it is processed out of the pulp and seed of the avocado fruit. Discard any rancid smelling fats, they are oxidized and harmful when eaten. Maybe buy smaller quantities at a time so you use it up before it goes off. Never cook with fragile, perishable omega3 oils like flax or chia. Keep them cold and use them for dips and salad dressings.
Chemically altered substances are always dangerous to health.
Great write up 💥🤗
Oh for crying out loud.😐🙄
*best Arnold Swartznegger voice
"Its NOT da seed oils!"
Yes they are BS industrialised toxic crap and people should avoid them where possible, if only to lower their day to day toxic burden. But letting the political animals turn this into a platform to explain the dramatic lowering of average life expectancy, the huge drop in fertility (even in developing countries),the rapid rise of neurological anxiety mental health issues, and the excess obesity, chronic disease.
Its the frigging LIGHTING.
NIR deficient lifestyles, non-native blue light tech- literally tells your body the wrong signals. It says store fat, and don't repair the daily damage.
When the cells have sufficient structured water around/in them (which we make in NIR light), it stops toxins from getting into the cell and or mitochondria in the first place. 😐🤨
#thinkcritically #whobenefits #itsalwayspolitics ##follownone
Brillant reframing of seed oils as structural contagions rather than debating linoleic acid nutrient trials. The gap between Mozaffarian's purified-FA studies and Kennedy's industrial-processing critique is the whole story here. What gets missed is that the CVD literature test nutrients under idealized conditons, not the oxidation burdens and solvent residues that actually ride throgh the food system.
Brilliant framing of these oil disasters as 'contagions' with shared infrastucture logic. The part that really sticks out is how each crisis only got addressed after mass casualties rather than preventative regulation. The tension between the cardiometabolic meta-analyses showing benefits of linoleic acid and the industrial contamination argument is wild since those RCTs basically evaluate purified nutrients under controlled settings, not the real-world oxidatio products and solvent residues that ride the seed-oil distribution channel.
While seed oils are a significant health issue, the linoleic acid and preformed arachidonic acid content of animal products may turn out to be the larger contributor to ill health. (web search - Hulbert The under-appreciated fats of life.
I urge the scientifically curious who read this comment to do these web searches:
Anna Haug Iindividual Variation
Anna Haug Animal Products
omeg-3/6 ratio endocannabinoid system
Chip Paul Experts sound the alarm
The importance of a balanced ω-6 to ω-3 ratio 2016
Unless about chrysanthemum oil, they're not "trans" fats, but E (entgegen). E/Z refer to in-plane geometric isomerism; cis/trans to out-of-plane.
This is fascinating and brilliant. It never occurred to me that seed oils might be the _carrier_ of toxins and not the toxins themselves.
Very important topic. Cooking oil is one of the most important things to consider when planning a good diet. I've been following Ayurveda (the oldest continuous system of natural health and healing) since the 1980's. Ayurveda recommends organic grass-fed ghee (clarified butter) made from organic grass-fed milk. It is easily made at home or purchased at a few specialty stores. When used in specific treatments ghee is one of the tools to successfully eliminate environmental toxins from the body. It easily penetrates the tissues and fat soluble toxins are attracted to it and then eliminated from the body thru feces and urine.