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2003/11/23, 05:13 PM
I know saturated fats and trans fats are bad and the other fats are good. I always wondered, then, why people who eat deep fried foods (in oil, not butter etc.) have problems with heart disease. I read recently when some oils, such as corn oil, is cooked at a high temperature, it turns into trans fat. This is horrifying. Luckily, I don't eat corn oil. I eat and cook with olive oil. I eat canola oil or whatever else when it's in my salad dressing. I've also read an article that says that olive oil constricts the veins when it's consumed, causing possible vascular damage.
This is all very confusing. Can someone please clear up whether oil is good, bad, should be embrased or avoided? I know it's probably all about moderation, but is it more advisable for me to eat a low fat diet or a diet with a decent amount of olive oil, for example?
I cook with olive oil, I put it on my salads sometimes or on bread as a snack cuz i thought it was good and now i don't know.
Is this one of those things that has contradicting science and reports about it- where some say it's good and others say it's bad?
Help me help myself. Thank you.
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2003/11/25, 08:40 PM
I've read stuff like that too. Maybe the trainers know more about it.
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2003/11/25, 09:04 PM
Hello, I have read that all cooking oils (except for extra virgin olive oil, cold pressed) are hydrogenated. Hydrogenated means that they have been chemically altered by man in the "processing". it seems that in order to give foods a longer shelf life in the grocery store, this method acts as a preservative. I have also read that this same process is used to make non food items solid. examples are candles, soap, deodorant. Unfortunatley, this hydrogenated oils (trans fat) is no good for human bodies. apparently the body has a hard time figuring out what to do with it. i have heard it can lead to lots of health problems......i have also heard that food companies that "process" food, dont want the public to figure out that their 'preservative process' is a health risk. becaus then the food companies would be loosing money.......i saw on the news last week that in 2006 the FDA is making it mandatory for nutrition labels to cite how much "trans fat" is in the food products.....for now, i think our best bet is to eat fresh foods that have not been "processed"....
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2003/11/25, 09:46 PM
Extra virgin olive oil is not safe to cook with. Olive oil is primarily a monounsaturated fat. This means that it has one double bond in its fatty acid structure. Although a monounsaturated fat is inherently more stable than a polyunsaturated fat, it is still quite susceptible to heat-induced damage that can result in trans fat.
Here you go, read this on saturated fats, very eye opeining...
http://www.mercola.com/2002/aug/17/saturated_fat1.htm
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2003/11/27, 01:01 AM
Oh! That ain't good. I thought I was eating healthy this whole time cooking with olive oil. Now my arteries are probably clogged ridiculously. What should I cook with? What can I do to clear my arteries? A shot of uncooked olive oil a day or something? Please help.
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2003/11/27, 11:38 AM
Yes, you can take olive oil uncooked. Use Flax oil and fish oil. These two are the ultimate fat supplements. If you choose to cook with olive oil, use a low heat.
You may want to cook with Extra Virgin Coconut oil. One of the healthiest oils on earth, full of MCT's, and can withstand high temperatures without breaking down.
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2003/12/07, 12:40 PM
Thanks for posting that website. As you said it would be, it was VERY eye opening. I made some immediate changes - I tossed the vegetable oil and changing other things about what and how I cook.
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