Paleo Quick Tip of the Day podcast #85- Don't eat Industrial Seed Oils Dude!

Paleo Quick Tip of the Day #85 podcast- Don’t eat Industrial Vegetable oils Dude!

This is a key point of paleo health that is often sidelined.  I mean, we all know that avoiding grains is key, but what is so bad about some clear looking oil that is labeled “heart-healthy” by every doctor and government health agency?

Well, first of all, almost every doctor and government agency is not your friend- they have an agenda; the doctor is an agent of large medical establishments that want your (and your insurance companies) MONEY, first and foremost.  Besides, they have been trained by pharmaceutical company funded college programs, and all they know is drugs and surgeries- they know next to nothing about nutrition, unless they taught it to themselves.  (Most pooh pooh nutrition altogether)

And the Government Agencies?  They also have an agenda, and it is not to help you, the taxpayer...

They want to sell farm products, America’s biggest export, and your health is probably better for them if you are NOT healthy!  The less social security payouts they have to make, the better.  They don’t want a lot of old seniors around, sucking up money that they (the government) could spend so much better than you can!)  Ha Ha.

Back to vegetable oils.  Corn, soy, cottonseed, sunflower, and safflower oils are very high in omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids, which cause oxidative damage and inflammation, which dramatically raise the risk of heart disease!  It is very important to avoid these fake, industrial, unnatural fats!!

Unfortunately, almost anything that you buy in a supermarket that is packaged uses these cheap, industrial oils.  And, if you go to almost any mainstream restaurant, these vegetable oils are what they use.

If you normally eat at home, and use real, natural, God made fats like butter, animal fats like lard, and coconut oil, you are building your health daily, particularly your heart health!  Despite what we’ve been lied to about for decades, natural, saturated fat is incredibly healthy!

But if you eat out in restaurants, know that they almost ALL use bad, industrial seed or vegetable oils.  And so, it is important to eat out only occasionally, since these oils are really bad on a regular basis!  Even if you always order “paleo friendly” meals like meats and veggies, they will be cooked in bad oils.

Salads are great, but if you get them at a restaurant: the dressings are almost certainly industrial seed oils. It’s kind of sickening, really; back in the 1950’s and 60’s, everything was cooked in natural lard or coconut oil, maybe butter.  I think that is why the WW2 generation is so long lived, they had really good food for the first half of their lives!  (My own father, Phil, is still going strong, living at home with my mother Carolyn, and he is 95!)

Then, after Ancel Keyes and the stupid Mc Govern commission decided that fat was the villain; well, our national health has been on a huge tailspin since then.  So, ignore them and eat real fat.

Try to avoid fake, industrial vegetable oils as much as possible- eat at home most of the time, and eat real food (and real fat).  If you go out to eat, and they offer sauces like hollandaise or others, pass.  They are undoubtedly soy oil based!

Just remember that these oils, although they kind of go “under the radar” since they are largely invisible, are really important. Bad, vegetable seed oils are like water in the gas tank, or a nail in the tire to the paleo diet- small things that seem beneath notice, but they are truly devastating to your health!

If you want a truly good oil, then just get a big bottle of cod liver oil, and put it in your daily Paleo Green Smoothie!  Now that is an oil I can swear by!!



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Paleo Quick Tip of the Day #72 Vegetable oils and margarine SUCK!

pjsc 106 vegetable oils and margarine suck

One concept that many people on the paleo journey kind of don’t really get is why you shouldn’t consume vegetable oils.I mean, it’s just a little oil, and it comes from plants, like peanuts and corn and soy and canola, so what’s the big deal?

It’s a vegetable after all, right?

Wrong.  Vegetable oils like canola (which is actually made from the rape seed plant and renamed for marketing purposes in Canada where most of it is grown) are highly refined, industrial seed oils.  I will include a video that shows how it is made- the video is supposed to be extolling the virtues of the oil, but just look at the process as it is portrayed- the heavy machinery needed to extract oil from a hard seeded plant like rape seed or corn, the extreme heating and hydrogenation and harsh chemical extraction...

After witnessing just how vegetable oils are made, almost like refining gasoline, you will wonder why anyone could deem such fake foods even faintly edible!

Because they are loaded with trans fats, which means they are modified to be solid at room temperature, vegetable oils and especially margarine are especially harmful to your heart health.  Soy and Canola oils are especially loaded with trans fats, and so are incredibly harmful- avoid them both!

Another problem with vegetable oils is that they are completely Omega 6 fats, which is a real problem in the S.A.D. standard American diet.  Our diet is completely flooded with this Omega 6 oil, which should be equally balanced with Omega 3 oils, which is what you get from butter, olive oil, seafood, and pastured meats.  If these two types of oil ratios get out of whack, extreme inflammation results throughout the body.  Inflammation like this is what causes virtually all modern disease, and so should be avoided at all cost.  Getting rid of vegetable oils and replacing them with heart healthy butter and coconut oil will go a long way towards getting rid of inflammation in the body, and also keep you satiated after meals (real fat is very satiating!) so you will stay both healthy AND slim!

There are many other problems with vegetable oils:

In one study, increased Omega-6 in breast milk was associated with asthma and eczema in young children

Studies in both animals and humans have linked increased Omega-6 intake to cancer

One study shows a very strong correlation between vegetable oil consumption and homicide rates

The Omega-6:Omega-3 ratio in blood has been found to be strongly associated with the risk of severe depression


In addition, it has been shown that the trans fats in vegetable oils are very alien, since they are not natural to the human body (we never ate them until about 100 years ago).  But the body digests them, and then can’t get rid of them easily, so it stores them as body fat.

But this type of strange fat is “unstable”, trans fats can easily be altered by stimulus, for instance if the trans fat was stored in the skin after digestion, it could easily alter upon exposure to sunlight and become a melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer!

And if it was stored as body tissue in the arteries, it could easily alter in a manner that promotes clotting, which could result in a heart attack.

I hope I’ve convinced you of the incredible evils of vegetable oils, which are better termed industrial seed oils. And bottom line- why deny yourself healthy, satisfying, totally natural God made fats like butter, cream, lard, coconut oil, and even fish oils?  Cod liver oil is one of the best foods ever- try to have some every day!  If you make a Paleo Green Smoothie like I recommend, that should be one of the ingredients, and after you make it in your Vitamix blender you can store several days worth of smoothie in Ball canning jars in the fridge, and you will be a nutritional golden child.

So do it- get started!  Throw out your vegetable oils and margarine, buy good pastured butter (Kerry Gold or Organic Valley)

, a big jar of coconut oil (get two- one for the bathroom- best moisturizer ever!) and one for the kitchen.  And then go to www.paleojay.com, click on the Vitamix link on the right, and order yourself one!  Free shipping with my link, and this will be the number one advance in your health you could possibly make.  So go ahead, and become the healthiest, happiest you that you can be- it all starts with nutrition!

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