The Shocking Truth About Vegetable Oil

 

 

 

Vegetable oil is one of those foodstuffs that people take for granted: We’ve been told that it is healthy – and most people don’t look any further into it. However, when you start to investigate what it is, how it is made and whether it is actually beneficial, a whole new picture begins to emerge.

Most people do not realize that vegetable oil is a relatively recent invention. Unlike olive oil or coconut oil, which can be extracted by simple cold pressing, vegetable oil may require very considerable processing – often using high temperatures and chemical processes. One of the principal objectives of food product manufacturers is to create the most “shelf stable” and most visually appealing possible product.

When you really understand the staggering extent to which vegetable oils such as canola are processed, it occurs to you that this has more in common with chemistry than it does with food. And it was a surprise to me to learn that the average consumption of vegetable oils is 70 lbs per person, per year.

Where did this whole idea come from that food can be manufactured, as opposed to grown naturally? Scientists will be the first to tell you about evolution, yet they ignore the fact that our bodies have evolved to eat natural food for hundreds of thousands of years. In other words, we are evolutionarily designed to eat what nature provides, in all its inimitable complexity. You can’t create natural foods in a factory, no matter what pictures of bunnies and sunsets are printed on the packaging.

There’s just no way that you can hand me a foodstuff or medicine that has been invented in the last 20 years and tell me that it is safe.

Because it cannot possibly have been tested on an entire human lifespan – therefore we cannot possibly know its real effects.

This ultra-simple point of logic is a thorn in the side of modern food manufacturers, who will do anything they can to promote the idea that their food is safe.

What’s really interesting is that there was a huge campaign against saturated fats in the 80′s and 90′s – and these views are now being overturned; leading one to the opinion that the whole push for these unnatural foods may have been driven by big-business product marketing.

Call me old school – but my approach is simply not to chance it. I’ll eat as naturally as I possibly can, while I still have the option. I know that the marketing and consumption of these foods is driven by big finance, whose motive is profit – which often has a mysterious way of blurring the focus around whether something is actually wholesome or not. Looking for a certain result, they will push their agenda aggressively. You know it’s true – the big question is, whether you are prepared to be a guinea-pig for what is essentially a total experiment. On you.

I’m of the view that the industrialization of food may well prove to be the chief reason for the rise in sickness in modern times. The trouble being, by the time the cat is out of the bag, a generation will have paid the price. And you either choose consciously what to put in your body, or you have those decisions made for you by men in a boardroom somewhere whose primary goal is getting rich.