Thread by @JohnConstas

Seed Oils are everywhere

Most packaged food you find in your grocery store contain them

They've been marketed as a "healthy" low-fat option to protect you from heart attacks

but more and more people are waking up to the scam

THREAD

Now, this is a question I get from many of you all the time:

"What are seed oils?"

Here is the list of the most commonly used ones:

Corn
Canola
Cottonseed
Soybean
Safflower
Peanut

They're made up of a specific type of fat known as Polyunsaturated Fatty acids

There are two types of fats found in nature

Saturated Fats
Unsaturated Fats

The difference (without boring you too much about the chemistry) is that saturated fats are solid at room temperature

while unsaturated fats (seed oils) are liquid at room temperature

Unsaturated fats are very unstable molecules

& go rancid very easily

Most commonly used seed oils are extremely inflammatory because of this

Inflammation = your silent killer

That's something you want to avoid if you want to live a long & healthy life

Seed oils, better known as vegetable oils, appeared at the turn of the 20th century

Prior to that, animal fats were used in all of our cooking

Lard from pigs
Butter from Cows
Tallow from Beef
Suet from Lamb

Certain Asian cultures used coconut and palm oil

At the turn of the 20th century, seed oils began replacing these traditional animal fats

Why?

Because they were cheap as hell

They were initially used as an industrial lubricant in machinery

Yuck

It gets worse

They wanted to make these oils more solid
& make them look just like butter

Their scientist used Hydrogenation, an industrial chemical process in order to make it happen

Hydrogenation of seed oils includes high pressure & heat

That oxidizes the oil and makes it even more
rancid

They add chemical solvents like Hexane & bleach

Finally, they "enhance" the seed oils with artificial colors so it looks like butter

aka toxic chemical slop

That's how Crisco & Margarine were born

These seed oil-based product infiltrated the entire food industry

Everyone kitchen in America began using them

They wanted you to believe it was the healthiest option

and best of all

It was way cheaper than butter or other animal fats

Soon after, the war against animal saturated fats began

In the 60s

Ancel Keys used research to convince the masses of the danger of saturated fat and heart disease

The American Heart Association came into being around this time as well

Together, Ancel Keys and the American Heart Association pushed out propaganda against saturated fats

They created fear on how saturated fats caused high cholesterol

which meant a greater risk of heart attacks

Seed oils were the Heart-healthy solution everyone needed

What most of you don't know is that Procter and Gamble

The same company that owned Crisco

was very closely related to the American Heart Association & even funded them

Conflict of interest much??

It took decades before people started catching on to the scam they were sold

As more research came out, seed oils seemed less and less like the health saviors they were thought to be

Side effects of seed oils were increases in:

Gallstones
Cancer
Stroke
Damaged liver

They are also very high in Omega 6, a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)

All of you have something called an Omega3 to Omega 6 ratio

Omega 3 is an anti-inflammatory form of PUFA

Omega 6 is pro-inflammatory and is found in most packaged foods

The average American consumes 20x more Omega 6 than Omega 3

That's a disaster for global health

So now, you might be wondering:

"If seed oils are everywhere, what should I do to protect myself?"

Answer is simple

Avoid them at all cost!

Most of your favorite restaurants use them to cook their food so that makes its very hard to completely avoid

but do your best

There are some seed oils that are exceptions

Any seed oil that is cold-pressed is less likely to go rancid

For example, Olive oil is a seed oil that is very healthy for you

Here are some great ways to minimize the damage of Industrialized seed oils have on your body:

- Eat lots of wild-caught seafood 1-2x per week
- Eat organic and grassfed meat
- Use black seed oil (cold pressed) which contains thymoquinone, a potent anti-inflammatory)

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***CORRECTION to thread***

Olive Oil is not a seed oil

It’s technically a fruit oil but often gets lumped in with vegetable oils

Sorry for the confusion

I should spend more time editing my posts...