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Oil, Healthy or Carcinogen?

Many of us remember that not too long ago, a decade or two back, all fat was considered evil and society banned it from their diets. The result was low-fat and no-fat eating which spawned a whole new set of health problems.

Additionally, doctors and scientists realized that low-fat and no-fat dieting did not really affect heart disease, cholesterol, or weight problems. It seemed that with low-fat eating came over-eating and carbohydrate loading. For those determined enough to actually stay on the diets, other health problems cropped up. Aside from dry and flaky skin, a host of neurological disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and organ failure were common among the dieters.

We soon realized that along the way low-fat and no-fat dieting was not a cure-all as once supposed. In fact, it caused more diseases than it was thought to cure. Many of these diseases were caused by the vegetable oils used in place of the natural fat found in food.

Vegetable Oil, A Killer

Many people believe that the highly processed, deodorized, and filtered clear vegetable oils like canola, corn, safflower, and "vegetable" oil are some of the healthiest stuff on earth. Even more believe the myth that margarine, (hydrogenated vegetable oil AKA shortening), is also better than butter. In fact, many still believe the lie that cooking oils, shortening, and margarine are all very low-fat and better than the fat found naturally in meats, eggs, dairy, and nuts.

Researchers and scientists took a second look into the products many of us still use in our homes. The results were astonishing, when these products were introduced back in the 1940's and 1950's to replace lard, butter, and animal fats, diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms, strokes, diabetes, and cancer more than tripled. In the US, where most of the consumers live, in the last 5 decades, it has become one of the most disease-ridden countries in the world.

While other countries are following suit due to the western diet influence through fast food chains, their obesity, cancer, and heart disease rates pale in comparison to ours. The reason? They still eat the fat nature intended us to eat.

Purified, deodorized, and hydrolyzed vegetable oils are not utilized by the body. In fact, these oils are rancid and contain cancer-causing compounds known as carcinogens. Further, they attach themselves to vital nutrients and non-rancid essential fatty acids the body desperately needs to run the nervous system and fuel the brain.

The result is catastrophic. The body begins producing more fat to combat the rancid oils being consumed. The fat the body produces is mostly bad cholesterol, the artery clogging fat which forms plaque. Even dangerous, yet, the lack of good fat in the body means the nervous system is literally starving to death. The nervous system, the nerves in the brain and body, run on essential fatty acids and good cholesterol the body is suppose to produce, and it relies on a continual supply of the good fats to produce the myelin sheath which assists in conducting nerve impulses, instead the myelin sheath begins to form holes and breaks down.

This results in something far worse. Since many of the nerve cells in the body are now starving to death and cannot supply nerve impulses properly, the body and brain cannot continue to communicate effectively. The result is that body systems and organs begin to dysfunction and die. Further, the myelin sheath around nerve cells acts to keep the nerve impulses within the cell until they reach their destinations. Without this the nerve impulses can leave the nerve cell prematurely. So rather than following the nerves to where the nerve impulse can communicate what is going on with the body, the nerve impulses become disconnected and disorganized.

The New Age Of Disease

The results from too little essential fatty acids from natural sources of dietary fats and the overabundance of rancid carcinogenic vegetable oils results in many different types of diseases, or rather, nutritional deficiency diseases. The most prominent found today include immune disorders, myalgias, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, diabetes, liver diseases (caused by over-taxing the liver), kidney problems, IBS, intestinal disorders, depression, manic disorders and many other common diseases surfacing today.

While it is true that due to genetic mutations and abnormalities, humans are genetically predisposed to develop diseases, most of these can be avoided altogether and indefinitely, if a strict diet, containing all the essential nutrients, is maintained for life. This means that rancid oils found on grocery store shelves need to be tossed out and good fats need to be included in the diet in ample amounts.

Doctors and researchers now suggest a low carbohydrate diet with 30% to 50% of the daily intake of calories taken from essential fatty acids as found in meats, deep ocean fish, hemp oil, and medium chain fatty acids such as raw organic palm oil and raw organic coconut oil. Percentage wise the rest of the calories should come from raw or lightly cooked fruits and vegetables (20% or more), protein (20% to 30%), complex carbohydrates from whole grains and legumes (10% or less).

Wait, There's More

Researchers also suggest that only some types of animal fats and oils can be consumed and others must be consumed in their raw form and never be heated or else they become rancid and as bad for health as regular vegetable oils. Our next newsletter will have an article which covers this.