Doctors once believed that ditching the butter and switching to vegetable oils was a healthier alternative that would help decrease one’s chances of developing certain health issues. It turns out, the data that they were using may not have been analyzed correctly, and vegetable oils could actually heighten the risk of some diseases such as heart disease. Rather than decreasing the risk, it actually increased.
What Is Vegetable Oil?
Vegetable oil is an overarching term used to describe any oil that is made from plants. It’s a catch-all term that encompasses many different kinds of seed and plant oils. Using that definition, there are several different kinds of vegetable oils. Let’s list out some common ones you’re used to seeing that you should NOT be consuming:
Canola Oil
Soybean Oil
Corn Oil
Cottonseed Oil
Sunflower Oil
Rapeseed Oil
Peanut Oil
Safflower Oil
Grapeseed Oil
What is really inside of Vegetable Oil?
Next time you’re at the grocery store, flip over the bottle of vegetable oil and look at the ingredients. Chances are, you’ll see “Soybean Oil” listed as the main ingredient.
Why wouldn’t they just call it soybean oil instead? Well, people are more likely to buy vegetable oil as opposed to soybean oil, so it could very well be marketing related, and any plant oil can be called vegetable oil, so brands are able to get away with it.
The seed oils are extracted from a plant by either a mechanical or chemical process. Many seed oils manufactures use harsh chemicals such as hexane to extract oil from seeds creating unhealthy omega 6 (inflammation) and chemical contaminants. Then, people are reheating these oils making them oxidized which makes it inflammatory.
What Does Vegetable Oil Do In Your Body?
The vegetable oils that you buy on the shelf are typically high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fats rather than omega-3’s.
We need a good balance of omega-3’s and omega-6’s. However, the standard american diet is filled with more omega-6’s than omega-3’s, and that imbalance is causing a a slew of issues like:
Heart Disease
Diabetes
Obesity
Arthritis
Cancer
Asthma
Chronic Inflammation
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The list continues, and health continues to decline more and more as these inflammatory oils are consumed. Avocado, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Coconut Oil have lower levels of omega-6’s and more omega 3’s making it “anti-inflammatory”.
Beneath the caesar recipe below, you will find a list of the cleanest olive / avocado oils on the market and my personal favorite filled with so many antioxidants and polyphenols (which fight cancer and inflammation!)
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1 pasture-raised egg yolk
2 tbsp fresh squeeze lemon juice
1 tsp dijon or whole grain mustard
1/4 - 3/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
4-6 anchovies, minced