Seed Oils are Slowly Poisoning Us & Our Children.
...and they are in EVERYTHING.
If we met up at your local supermarket and had a bet going on - that for every packaged product that had seed oils in it you would give us $20, and for every one that didn’t we would give you $20, we would walk out of that grocery store millionaires.
Seed oils are in everything.
The average American today consumes between 15-30 teaspoons of seed oils per day! (5-10 tablespoons). In 1900, that number was close to zero.
According to THIS study, “Globally, vegetable oil production has increased more than 16-fold since 1909, has doubled in the last 20 years, and is expected to grow 30% in the next four years. In the United States, the consumption of soybean oil alone has grown 1,000-fold since 1909.”
In our recent article - Carnivore Diet Saved Me From Autoimmune Hell (here) - one reoccurring theme seemed to span across all of the people we spoke to who had chronic autoimmune and other health issues: Seed Oils were a big culprit, if not the main one.
Nearly all of the dozens and dozens of people who shared their stories told us of the horrors they would encounter if they accidentally ate even a small amount of seed oils (with the second most common “trigger food” being soy and soy lecithin, which are closely related to seed oils).
So what are seed oils?
The terms “vegetable oil” and “seed oil” are often used interchangeably, even though there are slight differences. Of course there are all of the well known oils like Canola Oil, Sunflower Seed Oil, Palm Oil, and more. But this category really should zoom out to include all of the family of “vegetable oils” which then include corn, nuts, grains, and beans, (all seed-bearing parts of plants). Nearly all of these “vegetable oils” are common triggers for autoimmune issues in people who are on strict elimination diets.
The most telltale factor for determining how reactive these oils seem to be is this: How much linoleic acid is in the oil?
We believe that anything in the red in this chart should be avoided. The orange - Olive and Avocado - are the best of the worst. The additional problem with olive and avocado oil is that they are often cut with other oils (like Canola), and the packaging rarely tells the consumer the whole truth. For example UC Davis found that over 80% of avocado oils are made with rancid oil, or are adulterated with other oils (study here).
On the other end of the spectrum, most people in the autoimmune food community seem to tolerate perfectly fine the oils low in linoleic acid such as butter and tallow (especially if the animal was A2/A2 protein and not the more common A1 protein). Most people also tolerated coconut oil and lard. In terms of plant based oils, coconut seems to be - by far - the best.
If we go back in time and look at the instances of most chronic diseases, nearly all of them are barely detectable in the medical literature prior to the introduction of corn oil in 1898, and then (especially) Crisco in 1911. Some people chalk this up to coincidence. Others, rightfully say that correlation does not equal causation. And yet others point to other seemingly correlating factors such as pesticide and herbicide use, or even CO2 emissions. The flaw with these hypotheses are that if you remove CO2 or pesticides from a patient’s environment, these disease rates don’t drop with anywhere near the obvious percentage that they do when you remove common edible toxins such as seed oils, processed wheats, processed sugars, and chemicals from our food supply.
It seems to be that our food is the root cause of most of our diseases.
Just look at some of these charts:
Heart disease and strokes (recent slight decline is attributed to smoking awareness):
Depression:
Skin Cancer (the chart suggests it might be from sunscreen, but one interesting observation is that people eating strict Carnivore don’t get sunburn (HERE):
Of course as we mentioned correlation doesn’t equal causation, but we have already shown in our recent articles that by stopping eating these processed poisons thousands of people have been able to reverse their chronic diseases including nearly all autoimmune disorders, clinical depression, anxiety, and more.
The most alarming? These toxic oils and soy lecithin are in most baby formulas too:
It is hard to see that seed oils are bad for us. If you eat them once or twice, you may not notice a thing. It is the slow continuous use of them that gets to us. Underneath the surface they are causing inflammation, leaky gut, and cell dysfunction that leads to bigger problems down the road. It’s sort of like giving a dog a little chocolate. Nothing will happen on day one. But give that dog a little chocolate everyday for a month and it will soon be dead.
It may be difficult, but if you don’t have the discipline to do carnivore diet, we at least challenge you to try cutting these seed oil and soy poisons out of your life and see how you feel. This includes fryer oil (all fried foods unless they are fried in animal fat or coconut oil), chips, dressings, condiments, and more. It might be the single biggest thing you could do for positive health results.
Here is a great video about the history of seed oils.
If you want to read more here are a few other articles we wrote on the subject:
Or this excellent study and summary as well (HERE).
Thanks for reading!!
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