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3. How Vegetable Oil is Killing You
Although you might think that anything that includes the word “vegetable” is healthy, that is not the case with these oils. Many of these oils are based on GMO foods, which, in our book, aren’t really vegetables at all. Soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, and cotton seed oil are all GMO, to start with.
They also all contain trans-fats. You have probably been hearing about the dangers of trans-fats your entire life, and guess what? They are all true! Trans-fats damage your body right down to your cells, and this leads to everything from heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, cancer, and Alzheimer’s.
When these vegetable oils are being refined, they create free radicals. Free radicals are something you don’t want in your body. Free radicals damage our DNA and drastically speed up the aging process. Free radicals also cause damage to the arteries in the body, which can lead to heart disease, or a heart attack.
Inflammation in the body is a major root cause of many diseases. Vegetable oils increase inflammation in the body because they have unnaturally high levels of omega-6 fatty acids, and almost none of the anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. A healthy ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is 2 to 1, or even 1 to 1. Vegetable oils make that ratio 20 to 1.
This outrageous ratio of omega-6 fatty acids means that every time you eat vegetable oils, or foods fried in vegetable oils, you are slowly increasing your chances of becoming obese, developing heart disease, and other types of degenerative disease that will cut your life short.
Use natural oils that have healthy attributes and healthy levels of omega-3s; oils such as avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, and grass-fed butter are all safe and natural alternatives.
