I recently heard about the speculated negative effects of vegetable and seed oils on our bodies. Quite frankly, this all seems very alarming to me. I quite frankly like cooking with animal fats more anyway, but I was wondering what your thoughts were on this topic. If any professionals could elaborate or share their opinions or research, that would be much appreciated. Per the title, I’m also wondering if anyone follows a diet free of these fats.
Im no scientist, but the creator of the video seems to make a very strong argument against the use of such oils in cooking. I’ve also linked an article on the same topic below.
Here’s the video:
Here’s the article: https://www.ecowatch.com/amp/dr-mark-hyman-why-vegetable-oils-should-not-be-part-of-your-diet-1882164589.html
I do. I’m not completely sure that they’re bad but they are easy to avoid so, why not? I feel like I’ve had fewer stomach problem since I stopped them but that’s just a feeling. I didn’t collect data or anything.
This was asked a few days ago and the top comment had great studies on the topic. In short: none of the claims have any scientific backing up until this point, and vegetable/seed oils have just become the new “evil” food Of the moment
I follow a diet that excludes “low quality” vegetable oils, among other things. Good quality olive oil, avocado oil, and coconut oil are included. For my diet, the philosophy behind the exclusion of vegetable oils is the same as Dr. Hyman describes: rebalancing the ratio of consumed Omega 6 and Omega 3 fats.
Here we go again 😂
I look at it this way. Oils are the definition of processed food. You are taking a whole food substrate and grinding it down, processing it, removing anything about it that was good, and jacking up the caloric value. Tell me where in nature is the soybean oil tree? Or the tree bursting forth with fresh canola oil?
Truth is that most oils are calorie-dense, susceptible to nefarious practices like adulteration, offer little nutrition outside of excess energy, and some are prone to rancidity.
Is there a place in the human diet for oil? Yes. But it’s much smaller than conventional recipes require.
The caveat is that some oils are okay (but still deserve respect for their high caloric nature). In my opinion, these are olive and avocado oils. Extra virgin olive oil seems to retain some of its original nutritional benefits and studies and population research support this.
I haven’t studied this enough to be proficient in the science but I fall in the camp of “better safe than sorry.” As far as I’m concerned, there’s no compelling reason to use vegetable or canola oils (etc) so I don’t buy them.
These styles of vegetable oils are higher in the types of fats that are not as good for health than others, some oils also shouldn’t be cooked at high heat as they oxidise which causes negative effects in the body also. The best oils to use to cook are extra virgin olive oil. Even when cooking do not over heat the oil, if it smokes it’s gone bad. And also no oil is better than any oil if you can cook with a dash of water or a non stick pan you shouldn’t need any oil anyway. I am a qualified nutritionist.