Plant + Seed oils: Good or bad?
When I first began the chapter of holistic nutrition, I was thoroughly confused as to why I was able to eat bacon fat or any type of animal fat for that matter and it be ok. I believed that eating bacon often would just cause me heart issues. I couldn’t for the life of me wrap my mind around it. Welp! Come to find out, healthy fat is the heart’s PREFERRED type of energy source! Who knew? However, did you know that if you look up healthy cooking oils on the American Heart Association’s website this list of oils comes up?
Canola
Corn
Olive*
Peanut
Safflower
Soybean
Sunflower
Find the article HERE.
*Olive oil Is a great oil if used cold pressed or with cold foods. Olive oil typically turns rancid with higher temps-anything about 400*.
Hydrogenated oils have been included in the Standard America Diet for well over 100 years. As the years went on there was evidence of these hydrogenated/seed oils had poor health effects on the body such as inflammation due to higher levels of omega-6, cancer, diabetes, obesity, IBS, essential fatty acid deficiency, and calcification (hardening of tissue) of arterial cells-blood vessels that distribute oxygen rich blood to your entire body. The incredibly sad part about this is that the FDA will allow trace amounts of trans fat in our foods and the labels can state there is zero amounts of trans fat in said food. That’s why sticking to whole nutrient dense foods for majority of the time will serve your body best.
Hydrogenated plant and seed oils are considered polyunsaturated fats, meaning they are very unstable oils/fats, they tend to go rancid more easily when they are exposed to light or heat. This happens in the process of making these oils as well as cooking with them. They’ve also been made with some type of deodorizer to mask the smell before being placed in the grocery.
Quality Matters
Quality food source is going to make the biggest impact for all nutrients you ingest. For now, lets talk about these hydrogenated oils that are out there. Toxins will accumulate and build up inside your fat tissue. So when it comes to choosing the types of fats you’re ingesting you want to look at the source. In this practice we go off the good, better, best motto. So the best option of fats will come from grass-fed/finished animals, pastured raise eggs/poultry, organic/ cold pressed coconut oil, cold pressed olive oil, etc.
Healthy quality fats have multiple different positive roles they play in the body that include:
Providing source of energy
Serves as protective lining for the organs in your body
They’re building block for cell membranes and hormones
Helps regulate energy absorption by slowing down absorption of food
Support the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K
Increases your satiety
Allows for proper use of proteins
Helps food taste delicious!
Type of Healthy fats
Here are a list of my favorite real heart healthy fats:
Coconut oil
Bacon lard
Tallow
Grass fed butter
Bacon lard/fat
Avocados
MCT oil
Wild caught fish
Conculsion
Answer: Seed/Plant oils= BAD
Read your ingredient labels and stay away from those plant and seed oils/fats. They are causing inflammation, imbalanced cholesterol, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, IBS, and cancer to rise.
Tracking your core minerals and other minerals will help you navigate not only your heart health, but how your body is absorbing nutrients and your level of inflammation! All key to understanding what is going on with your body.
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