What is Vegetable oil? According to Google.com, Vegetable oil is an oil derived from plants e. g rapeseed oil, olive oil, sunflower. Dr Mercola also said vegetable oils are polyunsaturated vegetable oils such as canola, corn, soy oils. He went further saying, anytime you cook food you run the risk of creating heat-induced damage. The oils you use to cook with must be stable enough to resist chemical changes when heated to high temperatures, or run the risk of damaging your health. The following are some of the reasons you need to know to stop cooking with vegetable oils.
(1).Vegetable oils contain trans-fats.
Check your cooking vegetable oils, you may see it as hydrogenated oil, or see trans fatty acid. You may also see partially hydrogenated oils. Look for them on the ingredient list on the oil. Some companies may hide it from ingredient list. You may ask, how is trans fats dangerous? Google made it known that trans-fats raise your LDL(bad) cholesterol and lower your HDL(good) cholesterol. A high LDL cholesterol level in combination with low HDL cholesterol increase your risk of heart disease, the leading killer of men and women.
(2)Vegetable oils causes cancer.
As reported in abc.com, National Cancer Institute raises an alarm that eating Vegetable oils may increase the chances of getting breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, and rectal cancer.
(3).Vegetable oils contain oxidized cholesterol.
Dr Mercola said, when you cook with unsaturated oils like vegetable oils, oxidized cholesterol is automatically introduced to the blood stream. As the oil is heated and mixed with oxygen it changes into rancid. Rancid oils changes directly to vascular diseases.
(4).Vegetable oils can dramatically raise your risk of cardiovascular disease.
According to researchers, there is evidence from both randomized controlled trials and observational studies that vegetable oils can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease.
(5).Vegetable oils produce large amount of Omega-3 and Omega-6 acids.
It's known facts that our body cannot produce these two acids. And therefore we need these acids for proper functioning of the body. But, excess of these acids are always dangerous to the body. All Vegetable oils produce today in commercial quantity contain excess of omega-3 and omega-6 acids, which is beyond the normal body use. Excess of Omega-6 and Omega-3 in our cell membranes are prone to harmful chain reactions.
(6).Vegetable oils contain GMO.
The Vegetable oils we use here in Nigeria are produced by mostly American companies. And so we need to talk about their style of production. According to Dr Mercola, most if not all Vegetable oils are made from generically engineered crops. They are highly refined or processed on top of that. They contain toxins such as glyphosate and Bt found in genetically engineered coin and soy.
In summary, Vegetable oils are not health oils. They causes different kinds of verified and unverified diseases.
I hope this is informative.
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