Our switch from cooking with animal fats, like butter, to cooking with vegetable oils runs back more than fifty years. It was thought that this would lower cholesterol and the rate of heart attacks. Has switching to vegetable oils benefited our health overall or is the trend going the other way? Dr. Joseph Mercola says…
Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us? We Swapped Them in for Animal Fats 50 Years Ago
The Half-Truths About Cooking Oils: 2 Main Problems, May Be Linked With Cancer
Follow the series “The Half-Truths About Cooking Oils” here. When the term “cooking oil” is mentioned, the immediate image that comes to mind for most people is pale and yellow liquid in large transparent bottles labeled “vegetable oil.” Though vegetable oils are a staple cooking oil for many Americans now, they are only a recent…
The Worst Ingredient You’ll Eat Today
Many people think it’s sugar, but I believe this health bomb is far worse. If you consume more than 5 grams of it each day, you could be giving chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease and tumors a head start in your body. It’s in everything you eat, but especially these seven foods. Diet is,…
Seed Oils: Toxic Versus Healthy
When it comes to using seed oils, the United States is the world leader: Americans consume about 20 percent of the world’s oils at a rate of approximately 19.7 million barrels daily. Canada comes in at nearly 2.7 million barrels daily or 2.6 percent, a comparable per capita rate. Some of those seed oils are…
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