The Hazards Of Seed Oil Consumption

So, then why are we consuming poisoned seed oils?

This sneaked up on us ever so slowly over the decades.  It started in 1911 as stated earlier with Crisco, then around World War II when the U.S. government teamed up with the food industry to send meal kits to soldiers called C-Rats, (short for C rations.) These consisted chiefly of canned corned beef or bacon and cans of hardtack biscuits, as well as ground coffee, sugar, salt, and tobacco with rolling paper.  To preserve these foods, they were sealed in cans and the seed oils were used as a preservative. (4)

After the war, the food industry saw a huge profit future, and off they went making processed foods for the average American citizen marketing them as convenient, healthy, and tasty.  Grocery stores with refrigerators and freezers popped up all over and in the great prosperity of the post-WWII 1950s, our diets forever changed.  Now, without even thinking, people are eating foods that are almost all processed containing massive amounts of carbs, sugars, and seed oils.  

Obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and several other diseases skyrocketed from 1950 to the present.  Then, in 1980, the USDA and HHS put out their dietary guidelines and the FOOD PYRAMID with lots of grains at the bottom. About every 5 years after 1980, they updated the guidelines, but the pyramid kept the “healthy grains” at the bottom in abundance.  The bread, cereals, and processed foods that are in the food pyramid are full of seed oils even though it says to keep fats and oils to a minimum at the top of that pyramid.  At the bottom, the foods listed are manufactured using these poisonous industrial seed oils.

Here we are in 2022, and the ADA still recommends diabetics consume “healthy” whole grains with their insulin.  Here in 2022, the USDA still recommends bread, cereal, rice, and pasta to be in abundance in our diets.  Flip over the boxes of cereal, pasta, and packages of bread and read the oil they use to make those “food products.”  They’re canola oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, etc., not to mention that abundance of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta are pure carbohydrates that turn into monosaccharides (simple forms of sugar) in our bodies.  This combination of seed oil with carbohydrates is addictive!

Seed oils are inflammatory to the body, and over time, they cause health problems leading to serious diseases.  I call seed oils micro-toxins in that they don’t kill you right away, but like smoking, eventually, seed oils cause obesity, ill health, and disease.

Unlike cigarettes and other forms of tobacco with nicotine and tar, processed food is all around us in stores and restaurants, and there are no warnings on the packaging scaring the consumers that they will be ingesting a toxin called rancid seed oil which leads to inflammation, ill health, and eventual disease….eat at your own risk.

Lastly, to drive home the supposed health benefits of these “vegetable oils” was a man named Ancel Keys.  He was an American physiologist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he “hypothesized” that replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat (seed oils) reduces cardiovascular heart disease.   The method behind his study was seriously flawed. The biggest was that Keys cherry-picked countries for his studies because they supported “his” hypothesis. He left out 15 countries that did not reveal any association between saturated-fat consumption and heart mortality. (5)

The AMA, USDA, ADA, AHA, physicians, professors, food industries, your mothers, fathers, and grandparents all latched on to this one lie, and it gave birth to the low-fat high-carb diets that ruined many people’s lives and is still presently believed today.  Oh, you’re overweight.  It’s your fault, so you need to eat less and move more.  Where is the message about processed foods?  You’ll never see it because BIG FOOD will lose money, and then BIG PHARMA will lose money if they stop treating all of the ill people with their meds.      Seed oil is the root of illness followed by chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption.  They’re paired together, as processed foods are seed oils, carbs, and sugars.

Cut out processed foods, be conscious of not consuming seed oils, and make conscious food decisions to eat real, whole, one-ingredient foods like beef, pork, poultry, fish, some dairy, eggs, some vegetables, and maybe a handful of berries.  These are foods from God and Nature, unadulterated, unprocessed….food our ancestors have been eating for thousands of years.

Numerous articles go in-depth about how seed oils negatively alter our DNA, and cause addiction to carbohydrates by how the adulterated oil interacts with our two main endocannabinoid receptors stimulating cravings for carbohydrate foods leading to more ingestion of seed oil-laced processed foods causing the cascade of ill health effects. (6)

People will often ask me, “…then what oils CAN I use that are healthy?”  I’m so glad you asked!  The healthiest fats come from animals in their natural, unadulterated state as mentioned above.  Just eat fatty beef, fatty pork, fatty fish, some dairy if you like, and pastured eggs. Some vegetables and fruits are ok.  The natural healthy fats in these one-ingredient foods contain just the right balance of omega 6 to omega 3 fatty acids so as to not cause inappropriate inflammation.  

You see, we need inflammation at times in our body to heal little damages that occur naturally.  Inappropriate inflammation is caused by too much omega-6 fatty acids in relation to omega-3.  Omega 3 fatty acids are DHA and DHEA and they are anti-inflammatory and found in fish, fish eggs, and pastured hen eggs.  1:1 or 3:1 omega 6 to 3 is healthy and meant for our human bodies.  In the standard American Diet laced with high amounts of seed oils, people are getting 30:1, which is extremely inflammatory.

The oil from the olive, avocado and coconut comes from the flesh of those fruits, not their seeds, and when cold pressed, does not go rancid quickly and is not inflammatory, so avocado oil, coconut oil, and olive oil are acceptable non-animal sources of fats (oils).

At this point, I refer you to a man who has been in this seed oil research space for over a decade, Tucker Goodrich.  He has interviewed many scientists, and doctors on this topic and takes this research deeper to further expose the hazards of industrial seed oils in our processed foods and bottles for cooking.  I encourage you to google Tucker Goodrich (7) and learn more about this topic. I had the privilege of interviewing Tucker.  Here’s that link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDw91GXx-Ts

Eat well to look and feel well!  

I am the Seed Oil and Carb Addiction Teacher.  Follow me on Youtube.