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Why Seed Oils Are Not So Healthy
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| Animal fats are expensive and the food industry needs a cheap oil. | |
| And this started in the 1890s when they developed the stainless steel press, which allowed them to get oil out of seeds that you couldn't do that before. | |
| So the first one was cottonseed oil, and then they could get oil out of corn, which had never been done before, and then canola, which is rapeseed, and soybeans. | |
| So they started using these instead of the animal fats, and they had a big campaign to make you think that these seed oils were a healthy alternative to animal fats. | |
| But they're not somehow? | |
| No, they're not. | |
| They're not. | |
| The problem with the oils is that they're fragile. | |
| Any liquid oil is fragile and it oxidizes easily and it breaks down in the body into simple molecules called aldehydes. | |
| Not to get too technical, but there is an aldehyde that you know about. | |
| It's called formaldehyde. | |
| And I think it's very interesting that the undertakers are saying they don't need as much formaldehyde anymore to cure or preserve these bodies. | |
| It's already there. | |
| And this is coming from the seed oils. | |
| And they have been implicated. | |
| They're carcinogenic. | |
| They know that. | |
| They have been implicated in heart disease and many other conditions. | |
| And infertility is another thing that they lead to. | |
| These things are ubiquitous. | |
| They are everywhere. | |
| I'd never heard anything about, like, why would you have something that's known carcinogenic? | |
| Like, this doesn't make a terrible amount of sense to most people. | |
| So we have to kind of back up a little bit. | |
| Follow the money. | |
| I mean, it's much less expensive to use soybean oil or corn oil and then butter. | |
| Butter is a very expensive fat, or lard or tallow. | |
| Those are the three main ones. | |
| And then there's also what I call the fruit oils, which is palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil. | |
| These are much healthier than the seed oils because they're more saturated. | |
| And you know, the saturated fats have been demonized. | |
| But the saturated fats are the good fats. | |
| They're the stable fats that don't break down. | |