Poisoning You Slowly with Canola Oil
Is canola oil in your diet?
If you ever eat out or eat prepared food, I guarantee it is.
Canola oil is in all sorts of food products these days. From restaurant food, to fresh prepared food, to packaged food, to frozen food, to your ‘healthy’ snacks.
Canola oil is the dominant oil in the food scene.
Why does the food industry love canola oil?
Canola is a cheap oil for those in the food industry to use and it doesn’t have a heavy taste which makes it easy to blend into almost any recipe.
Why is canola oil bad for you?
Canola oil is a polyunsaturated oil. Polyunsaturated oils oxidized easily once in your body. Oxidation is a chemical reaction in which its byproducts damage your DNA and RNA. No good. No good at all.
Polyunsaturated oils promote tumor growth, if not solely create it.
These long chain oils also suppress your immune system. What is going to fight for you and protect you if your immune system is down and out?
If this is the first time you’ve heard about polyunsaturated fats or you’d like to learn more about how they react inside your body, check out this article.
How do you avoid eating these toxic oils?
- Read labels closely, very closely
- Ask your server when dining out what oils they use in their foods.
- Do not buy canola oil for home use.
- Educate your family and friends.
What are the healthier and much tastier options?
Olive Oil
Oil of the Gods. If digested daily, it’s said to promote longevity. The peace tree oil.
A word of caution: Olive oil is a tricky industry. Lots of companies cut corners.
You really need to look into the companies handling of their olive oil business. So many ‘pure olive oils’ are in fact mixed!!! Some olive oils are actually mixed with soy oil or vegetable oil and they label doesn’t even say it! Check out Extra Virgin Suicide for more information.
You want 100% pure – not mixed, truly cold pressed, organic extra virgin olive oil.
We love and use Bariani Olive Oil. We are also in California, so this logistically makes sense for us.
Sesame Oil
Such a valuable oil. Lots of at-home uses. Not just for a distinguished taste in cooking but also one of our favorite oils for massage and oil pulling.
Sesame oil is energetically a warming oil. Especially good if you run on the cold side.
You want a 100% pure, unrefined, organic cold pressed sesame oil. We use Spectrum’s sesame oil in our home.
Coconut Oil
The hero oil of the decade! Coconut, in all its forms, is the talk of the town. From foods, to the ‘bullet-proof’ coffee trend, to DIY beauty products… coconut oil is all the rage these days! It is a must in any home.
Coconut oil is energetically a cooling oil. Especially good if you run hot or if you are treating a heat disease such as a fever.
You want pure extra virgin, cold-pressed, organic coconut oil.
You can take a scoop on a spoon – eat some, then rub the rest on your body or on the ends of your hair. What a great versatile oil!
Grass-Fed Butter
Everything’s just better with butter.
That pretty much sums up everything you need to know about butter – as long as it is grass-fed.
Grass-Fed butter gives us the very valuable vitamin K2. You need this vitamin so that when you eat foods with calcium the K2 can ‘direct’ the calcium into the proper location in your body. Without it – calcium can get lost and deposit in unwanted and dangerous locations in your body, like your soft tissues. You can get K2 from a few other food sources, like natto, but grass-fed butter is just yum!
Yum. Yum yum yum. More please!
Kerry Gold or Straus Family Creamery’s European Style Butter are our top butter choices!
Tallow/Lard
Hmmmm… lard?
Yes, lard. If it comes from a healthy organic animal pasture raised on a natural 100% clean diet etc., it is A-O-K.
We make the lard we use… it is a long and rather stinky process.
If you want to learn how to render your own lard at home, email me to find out how!
If you want to purchase tallow/lard, make sure it is from an organic 100% grass-fed, natural feed healthy animal source and that they do not bleach their products.
What is canola oil good for?
Canola oil is a great insecticide
Funny story… my neighbor is fascinated by spiders. He loves to collect them and watch them and set the harmless ones free. Black widows are common here and can be very dangerous. He found a huge black widow one day and had to remove it for family safety purposes.
He sprayed it with some spray olive oil. The spider quickly curled up like the battle was over; but then moments later, sprang back into action!
Then he grabbed some canola oil and sprayed the spider. The spider again curled up; but this time, that was it! The spider quickly died!!!
Why did the black widow quickly die when he sprayed it with canola oil?
Canola oil impairs cellular respiration which literally caused the spider to suffocate. For this reason, canola oil is great to use if you are forging war with insects.
Canola oil is a good oil for biodiesel
Canola oil is also good because it keeps us from munching on french fries or sweet potato fries when we dine out at a burger and fry joint. We have found that even the high-brow ‘clean’ meat burger joints often fail when it comes to the oils they use for their fries or other side dishes. Sigh.
Canola oil also keeps me from buying a bunch of pre-packaged foods at WHOLE FOODS or even sadly from some Ma & Pa Farmers Markets stands.
Canola oil keeps us from eating out at a bunch of different restaurants – even some of the great organic and/or kosher ones. I would rather stay home, again, to cook,eat and clean -up versus go out to eat food that I know is damaging to my and my family’s health.
Unless it’s noted, canola oil is most likely GMO sourced, as it’s very much like the corn industry these days. GMO foods is another subject entirely, but the short of it is, anything GMO should be avoided for the better health of all humans and animals (this includes your pets) and the bees and this planet. No to GMO.
Reviewing the choices of good oils versus canola oil, I hope you choose and encourage others, like your favorite restaurants or food makers, to go back to the truly “good ‘ol days” where hummus was made with real olive oil, sweet potato fries were fried in ‘healthy animal’ lard, cookies were made with grass-fed butter and your salad dressings were simple, classic and truly healthy for you.
Eating is something we do daily, multiple times a day. As individuals or as a family.
No matter our diet affiliation, we need oils and fats.
Healthy oils and fats in proper moderation are just that – healthy for you! I think they taste great too…
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