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What products contain soybean oil? I use canola or olive oil, but not sure I've ever bought soybean oil. Is there any reason to think canola would be better?
Canola is a branding name to distract you from the fact that the oil is technically from the nearly un-marketable "rapeseed".
Soybean oil the most widely consumed? I would never have guessed. Figured canola would be.
I figured the cheapest oil ( vegetable, canola, etc ) would be the most widely used cooking oil as well. I've never even heard of soybean oil let alone know anyone who uses soybean oil.
And honestly, a lot of oils seem obscure. I use grapeseed oil, but hadn't heard of it 10 years ago. I don't know anyone else that does either. They sell it in one of the grocery store chains here, though, and I decided to try it. Something similar must be the case for soybean oil: Some stores in Norway sell a bottle labeled 'soybean oil', so someone must be buying it.
My understanding is that most of the oils we use are unhealthy. They are highly processed and inflammatory. The good oils are avocado oil, extra virgin olive oil and coconut oil. Is this correct?
Result of designing the food supply chain for manufacturer convenience and profit, instead of health of the people. Yeah, but it's the "free market" so we're all supposed to cheer at new products and boo at regulations.
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From the study: > One additional note on this study — the research team has not yet isolated which chemicals in the oil are responsible for the changes they found in the hypothalamus. But they have ruled out two candidates. It is not linoleic acid, since the modified oil also produced genetic disruptions; nor is it stigmasterol, a cholesterol-like chemical found naturally in soybean oil. 1. We're not mammals that exp…
1. We have common genes going back to mammals who did experience torpor. 2. A study doesn't "own" their data and have exclusive right to interpret this data 3. Someone selling something that they think is beneficial to their customer, does not mean it is not beneficial. I would say most people who sell things honestly think their customers will benefit from their product.
Whole industry started because of this claim, plant based cooking oil, margarine, trans fat. Each targeted in replacing one aspect of animal oil. Each are later found to be (more) harmful than animal fat.
I would recommend the book big fat surprise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130316-the-big-fat-sur... if anyone is interested in learning how the oil industry evolved
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> Indian ghee We have been using ghee in India for thousands of years. If immigrant Indians are having problems, they should look into what changed in their diet and lifestyle after they immigrated.
> We have been using ghee in India for thousands of years. Doing something unhealthy for “thousands of years” does not make it healthy.
There is no concrete evidence that ghee is unhealthy. Even the linked study is only talking about a "possible cause," that too in Indians who are not even in India. Indians adopt western habits when they immigrate. Who knows what they have been eating once they assimilated into English and West Indian societies.
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Humanity has been using Olive Oil for at least 1000 years. So that seems pretty safe to me.
Humanity has also been drinking alcohol for thousands more, doesn't mean it's safe.
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Humanity has been using Olive Oil for at least 1000 years. So that seems pretty safe to me.
Humanity has also been drinking alcohol for thousands more, doesn't mean it's safe.
> The same UC Riverside research team found in 2015 that soybean oil induces obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and fatty liver in mice. Then in a 2017 study, the same group learned that if soybean oil is engineered to be low in linoleic acid, it induces less obesity and insulin resistance. > “The hypothalamus regulates body weight via your metabolism, maintains body temperature, is critical for reproduction and…
From the study: > One additional note on this study — the research team has not yet isolated which chemicals in the oil are responsible for the changes they found in the hypothalamus. But they have ruled out two candidates. It is not linoleic acid, since the modified oil also produced genetic disruptions; nor is it stigmasterol, a cholesterol-like chemical found naturally in soybean oil. 1. We're not mammals that exp…