New Certification Scheme Highlights Growing Concerns on Seed Oils Health Impacts
Are seed oils bad for you?
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Seed oils are the new tobacco — and you need to know about it says Eurof Uppington the CEO and Founder of Amfora, a Switzerland-based importer of extra virgin olive oils.
In her new book Dark Calories, The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition, Dr. Cate Shanahan explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.
Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes?
Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies’ cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.
What are seed oils and why are so many experts concerned about their consumption
A USA Today report on seed oils and health problems listed canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran and peanut oils. This group is sometimes referred to as the "hateful eight" and blamed for a whole host of health problems.
Vegetable oils (A.K.A seed oils) are pro-oxidative, pro-inflammatory, toxic, and nutrient-deficient. And they are virtually everywhere–used for cooking meals in restaurants, in our processed foods, condiments, and more. These oils create mitochondrial dysfunction that inevitably leads to different health conditions, including obesity, coronary heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, age-related macular degeneration, autoimmune conditions, and more.
This is according to Dr.Chris Knobbe, author of “The Ancestral Diet Revolution,” who sounded the alarm that seed oils are the primary driver of these health issues. He points to countless studies and data that make this case.
Dr Pradip Jamnadas, the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Cardiovascular Interventions in Orlando Florida where he has performed thousands of interventional procedures in hospital and outpatient settings has repeatedly warned against consuming seed oils. His passion for teaching and illuminating preventive measures for cardiovascular disease is shown in this video on creating healthy holiday meals that avoid ultra processed foods, foods high in sugar and seed oils.
Whether it's soy oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, even canola oil. These are all manufactured oils full of omega six. And these must be avoided whenever we cook, we should not use this oil.
The opinions of medical experts like Drs Shanahan, Knobbe and Jamnadas gives weight to the opinions of journalists like Dr Nina Teicholz ( who just received her Phd in nutrition ), who wrote the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat, especially on saturated fat and vegetable oils.
In this video, Nina Teicholz talks about the history of seed oils, which include corn, canola, soybean and peanut oil, and their health effects. Before seed oils, we used to cook with lard, tallow, suet and butter. Through hydrogenation, hardened oil entered our food supply in the form of Crisco for the first time in 1911. Then came margarine, designed to replace butter, followed by cooking oils. These oils got a boost in 1961, when the American Heart Association recommended polyunsaturated oil to fight heart disease. But then studies showed a higher rate of death from cancer and higher rates of gallstones and strokes. Watch the video to learn about the trans fat ban, the toxic substances produced by heated oils and Teicholz's lessons on oils.
The surging concerns of consumers can be reflected in the popularity of online videos like “The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient making your Food Toxic” and how The Switcheroo from eating a common food eaten for thousands of years (animal fats) to vegetable oils led to an explosion of obesity and disease. Increasing consumer awareness of the health benefits of edible oils high in saturated fats is leading to raging discourse on social media like this British consumer who rubbished the NHS’s advice to reduce consumption of popular foods high in saturated fats with his personal experience.
Social media influencers including Healthyoilrespecter, SeedOilDisrespecter and SeedOilScout with its seed oil free app for Apple and android explains why the US’s most well known organisation for animals, PETA, weighed into the issues with a hastily written opinion to appeal to American consumers to consider the cruelty factors in animal fats.
But quoting animal cruelty in saturated fats to scare consumers back into consuming seed oils ignores the findings of Nina Teicholz which said:
The PURE investigators found that saturated fat was not associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality and was significantly associated with lower total mortality as well as lower risk of stroke
It is time to retire the myth that the American Heart Association perpetuates as these five studies on saturated fats consumption show an inconclusive effect on cardiovascular health. The American Heart Association may be too slow to act on new findings in medical science which leads to the question of the responsibilities of fast food companies towards their customers.
Should Fast Food Companies Get Involved With Providing Healthy Foods free of seed oils?
This comprehensive look into seed oils and their impact on human health by registered dietitian Julia Zumpano, from the Cleveland Clinic would say yes.
Julia explains what seed oils are, what they can do to your body and whether you need to cut them out forever or just focus on a healthy, balanced diet.
You might even hear this group of seed oils referred to as the “hateful eight,” a reference to some people’s belief that they’re toxic and should be completely removed from your diet. But is the problem with seed oils themselves or the way they’re used?
“Most seed oils are being utilized in the form of processed packaged foods, fast foods and eating out,” Zumpano says. “That’s where most of the danger lies.”
But American diets typically already include too many omega-6s. This throws off your body’s ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids, leading to inflammation in the body.
Inflammation in the body leads to a whole host of health issues in the American public according to this report on chronic inflammation published by the National Library of Medicine:
Diabetes: in 2015 and it was the 7th leading cause of death in the United States.
Cardiovascular diseases: In line with 2017 updated report from the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) accounts for 1 out of every three deaths
Arthritis and Joint Diseases: These affect approximately 43 million people in the United States or almost 20% of the population. This number is expected to exceed 60 million by 2020.
Allergies: These rank among the sixth leading cause of chronic human diseases in the United States and affect more than 50 million Americans each year. Asthma affects more than 24 million people in the United States including more than 6 million children.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): The third most common cause of death in the United States in 2014, and nearly 15.7 million Americans (6.4%) were reported to have been diagnosed with COPD.
But instead of focusing specifically on banishing seed oils from your diet, Zumpano reiterates that your first step should be trying to eliminate ultra-processed foods from your diet as much as you possibly can.
Julia Zumpano's suggestion is supported by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health whose scientist, Guy Crosby, tried to debunk claims of seed oil health risks by blaming other ingredients in fast foods.
“While it’s true that many foods that use seed oils—such as packaged snacks and french fries—are unhealthy, they also tend to be high in refined carbohydrates, sodium, and sugar.”
But shifting the blame away from seed oils as a cause of chronic diseases does not really debunk the health claims against seed oils. There’s mounting evidence against seed oils, mainly soy in the American diet, that warrants a closer look.
Are seed oils to blame for the increase of chronic diseases in America? The answer is not clear as there are too many variables like was the seed oil used to fry fast foods high in refined carbohydrates, sodium and sugar?
The bottomline for the fast food or consumer packaged goods companies has to be a complete reformulation of their ingredients to eliminate all possible sources of their foods making Americans sick.
The food industries know this which is why they have all rolled out healthier versions of branded products with low salt, low sugar and the use of whole carbohydrates.
Eliminating seed oils from their products is a natural step in light of the ubiquitous presence of seed oils in US fast foods and consumer packaged goods.
Colorado’s ultra health conscious restaurant Just Be Kitchen has the distinction of becoming the first restaurant to earn a Seed Oil Free Certification.
However, the success of Seed Oil Free Certification’s mission to improve the well being of Americans will depend on finding its place between the extremes of ultra health conscious Just Be Kitchen and the super profit conscious American fast food giant McDonald’s which uses a canola-blend.
We reached out to the folks behind Seed Oil Free Certification to find some answers. Read their response
In her new book Dark Calories, The New York Times bestselling author of Deep Nutrition, Dr. Cate Shanahan explains how a group of eight little-known oils cause the cellular damage that underlies virtually all chronic disease, exposes the corruption that deceives doctors and consumers into eating them, and gives us a clear roadmap to recovery and rejuvenation.
Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes?
Cornell-trained biochemist turned family physician Dr. Cate Shanahan introduces us to well-respected scientists who warn that vegetable oils are a public health disaster, wreaking havoc on our bodies’ cells by depleting antioxidants and promoting free radical toxicity.
What are seed oils and why are so many experts concerned about their consumption
A USA Today report on seed oils and health problems listed canola, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, soybean, sunflower, rice bran and peanut oils. This group is sometimes referred to as the "hateful eight" and blamed for a whole host of health problems.
Vegetable oils (A.K.A seed oils) are pro-oxidative, pro-inflammatory, toxic, and nutrient-deficient. And they are virtually everywhere–used for cooking meals in restaurants, in our processed foods, condiments, and more. These oils create mitochondrial dysfunction that inevitably leads to different health conditions, including obesity, coronary heart disease, cancers, type 2 diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, age-related macular degeneration, autoimmune conditions, and more.
This is according to Dr.Chris Knobbe, author of “The Ancestral Diet Revolution,” who sounded the alarm that seed oils are the primary driver of these health issues. He points to countless studies and data that make this case.
Dr Pradip Jamnadas, the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Cardiovascular Interventions in Orlando Florida where he has performed thousands of interventional procedures in hospital and outpatient settings has repeatedly warned against consuming seed oils. His passion for teaching and illuminating preventive measures for cardiovascular disease is shown in this video on creating healthy holiday meals that avoid ultra processed foods, foods high in sugar and seed oils.
Whether it's soy oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil, even canola oil. These are all manufactured oils full of omega six. And these must be avoided whenever we cook, we should not use this oil.
The opinions of medical experts like Drs Shanahan, Knobbe and Jamnadas gives weight to the opinions of journalists like Dr Nina Teicholz ( who just received her Phd in nutrition ), who wrote the New York Times bestseller, The Big Fat Surprise, which upended the conventional wisdom on dietary fat, especially on saturated fat and vegetable oils.
In this video, Nina Teicholz talks about the history of seed oils, which include corn, canola, soybean and peanut oil, and their health effects. Before seed oils, we used to cook with lard, tallow, suet and butter. Through hydrogenation, hardened oil entered our food supply in the form of Crisco for the first time in 1911. Then came margarine, designed to replace butter, followed by cooking oils. These oils got a boost in 1961, when the American Heart Association recommended polyunsaturated oil to fight heart disease. But then studies showed a higher rate of death from cancer and higher rates of gallstones and strokes. Watch the video to learn about the trans fat ban, the toxic substances produced by heated oils and Teicholz's lessons on oils.
The surging concerns of consumers can be reflected in the popularity of online videos like “The $100 Billion Dollar Ingredient making your Food Toxic” and how The Switcheroo from eating a common food eaten for thousands of years (animal fats) to vegetable oils led to an explosion of obesity and disease. Increasing consumer awareness of the health benefits of edible oils high in saturated fats is leading to raging discourse on social media like this British consumer who rubbished the NHS’s advice to reduce consumption of popular foods high in saturated fats with his personal experience.
Social media influencers including Healthyoilrespecter, SeedOilDisrespecter and SeedOilScout with its seed oil free app for Apple and android explains why the US’s most well known organisation for animals, PETA, weighed into the issues with a hastily written opinion to appeal to American consumers to consider the cruelty factors in animal fats.
But quoting animal cruelty in saturated fats to scare consumers back into consuming seed oils ignores the findings of Nina Teicholz which said:
The PURE investigators found that saturated fat was not associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality and was significantly associated with lower total mortality as well as lower risk of stroke
It is time to retire the myth that the American Heart Association perpetuates as these five studies on saturated fats consumption show an inconclusive effect on cardiovascular health. The American Heart Association may be too slow to act on new findings in medical science which leads to the question of the responsibilities of fast food companies towards their customers.
Should Fast Food Companies Get Involved With Providing Healthy Foods free of seed oils?
This comprehensive look into seed oils and their impact on human health by registered dietitian Julia Zumpano, from the Cleveland Clinic would say yes.
Julia explains what seed oils are, what they can do to your body and whether you need to cut them out forever or just focus on a healthy, balanced diet.
You might even hear this group of seed oils referred to as the “hateful eight,” a reference to some people’s belief that they’re toxic and should be completely removed from your diet. But is the problem with seed oils themselves or the way they’re used?
“Most seed oils are being utilized in the form of processed packaged foods, fast foods and eating out,” Zumpano says. “That’s where most of the danger lies.”
But American diets typically already include too many omega-6s. This throws off your body’s ratio of omega-6 fatty acids to omega-3 fatty acids, leading to inflammation in the body.
Inflammation in the body leads to a whole host of health issues in the American public according to this report on chronic inflammation published by the National Library of Medicine:
Diabetes: in 2015 and it was the 7th leading cause of death in the United States.
Cardiovascular diseases: In line with 2017 updated report from the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) accounts for 1 out of every three deaths
Arthritis and Joint Diseases: These affect approximately 43 million people in the United States or almost 20% of the population. This number is expected to exceed 60 million by 2020.
Allergies: These rank among the sixth leading cause of chronic human diseases in the United States and affect more than 50 million Americans each year. Asthma affects more than 24 million people in the United States including more than 6 million children.
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): The third most common cause of death in the United States in 2014, and nearly 15.7 million Americans (6.4%) were reported to have been diagnosed with COPD.
But instead of focusing specifically on banishing seed oils from your diet, Zumpano reiterates that your first step should be trying to eliminate ultra-processed foods from your diet as much as you possibly can.
Julia Zumpano's suggestion is supported by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health whose scientist, Guy Crosby, tried to debunk claims of seed oil health risks by blaming other ingredients in fast foods.
“While it’s true that many foods that use seed oils—such as packaged snacks and french fries—are unhealthy, they also tend to be high in refined carbohydrates, sodium, and sugar.”
But shifting the blame away from seed oils as a cause of chronic diseases does not really debunk the health claims against seed oils. There’s mounting evidence against seed oils, mainly soy in the American diet, that warrants a closer look.
- The US leads in fast food consumption with individuals indulging 1-3 times per week, contributing to an annual expenditure of $160 billion. This significant intake is reflected in the habits of 37% of American adults who consume fast food daily and 83% of households that do so weekly.
- Soybean oil had the highest level of consumption of any edible oil in the United States in 2023. In that year, Americans consumed about 12.25 million metric tons of soybean oil, compared to about 1.9 million metric tons of palm oil.
- High consumption of soybean oil has been linked to obesity and diabetes and potentially autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression. Add now to this growing list ulcerative colitis, a form of inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, characterized by chronic inflammation of the large intestine.
Are seed oils to blame for the increase of chronic diseases in America? The answer is not clear as there are too many variables like was the seed oil used to fry fast foods high in refined carbohydrates, sodium and sugar?
The bottomline for the fast food or consumer packaged goods companies has to be a complete reformulation of their ingredients to eliminate all possible sources of their foods making Americans sick.
The food industries know this which is why they have all rolled out healthier versions of branded products with low salt, low sugar and the use of whole carbohydrates.
Eliminating seed oils from their products is a natural step in light of the ubiquitous presence of seed oils in US fast foods and consumer packaged goods.
Colorado’s ultra health conscious restaurant Just Be Kitchen has the distinction of becoming the first restaurant to earn a Seed Oil Free Certification.
However, the success of Seed Oil Free Certification’s mission to improve the well being of Americans will depend on finding its place between the extremes of ultra health conscious Just Be Kitchen and the super profit conscious American fast food giant McDonald’s which uses a canola-blend.
We reached out to the folks behind Seed Oil Free Certification to find some answers. Read their response
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