Is This Health Food Imposter In Your Pantry?

'Olive oil comes from olives, corn oil comes from corn and canola oil comes from ... canola?


Right... sort of. Canola oil is a genetically modified food made from a hybridized version of the rapeseed plant which is a member of the mustard or cabbage family.


Rapeseed oil is a low quality monunsaturated oil used mostly in industrial applications and in some traditional Japanese, Indian and Chinese cultures. The problem with rapeseed oil is that it's high (30 to 60%) in a toxin called erucic acid, found to be associated with fibrous heart lesions.


In the late 1970's, when polyunsaturated fats from vegetable oils were beginning to be shunned for their association with high rates of cancer and heart disease, monounsaturated fats like olive oil were being relied on more and more as the best source of healthy monounsaturated oil. However, there was not enough olive oil for world demand, not to mention that it was too expensive for producing cheap processed foods.'




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Urgent: Throw These Cooking Oils in the Trash

'In the words of Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser:

"If they have to put the word 'natural' on a box to convince you, it probably isn't."'

'But this doesn't stop countless processed food manufacturers from boldly labeling their products as 100% natural in the hopes of appealing to health-minded shoppers like you. 

After all, products labeled as "natural" or "sustainable" account for $50 billion in sales annually, or 8 percent of total retail grocery sales, and the numbers are likely growing
When you see a supposedly "natural" product, like ConAgra's Wesson brand vegetable oils claim to be, you would probably assume they contain no genetically modified organisms (GMOs), which by definition are not found in nature. But Wesson oils, specifically the Canola Oil, Vegetable Oil, Corn Oil, and Best Blend, do in fact contain GMOs, prompting a class-action lawsuit over their misleading "100% natural" label claim.'

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Toxic Cooking Oils Redux: Lies and Deceptions Of Cooking Oils and Their Labeling

 

by Thomas Corriher
Health Wyze Report

'One thing we find immensely galling is how the chemical industry perpetually uses devious tactics to con health-seeking people into poisoning themselves.  The confusion existing around fats and oils is absolutely intentional, and it is designed to prevent us from making healthy choices.  The situation is so bad that we have pondered whether it is merely a problem of greed, or are these people really that evil?'

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Canola Oil... Will Kill You

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