Seed-oils? Are we still doing this?

Do you recall how silly we were for cooking with fat filled animal products; like lard and butter? The short answer is - no. Lard was made largely unpopular by Corporate Giants, like Crisco (formerly Proctor and Gamble), in the early 20th century. Yes, this is same company that makes laundry detergent, diapers and food products barely safe for consumption.  

For those that don't know, lard is generally made via pork through a slow cooking process, called rendering. Butter follows a similar natural process by separating from cow's milk. These are two cooking bases were used for centuries before the chemical processing of seed-oils. Back in a time where obesity and autoimmune diseases were frankly too small in occurrence to account for.  So what took their place after nobody wanted to be called a "Lard"? 
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What are seed-oils?

Seed-oils are chemically modified plant-biproduct that are cheap and easy to produce. Think of the cotton seed, which was once a nuisance. Milling these seeds left an unattractive and odor-filled oil, which would be challenging to bring to market.  It wasn't until a chemist discovered how to apply a industrial bleaching and deodorizing to make seed-oils appear much lighter in color and nearly odorless. 

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From the same minds that convinced the public that cigarettes were good for you, also helped spread the narrative that seed-oils, I mean vegetable oils, are cheap and also a healthy alternative to lard and butter.  It wasn't long after until profits and obesity began to soar.

Why is this important?
Many Americans are only slowly waking up to the dangers of seed-oils. These chemical filled delicious doses of illness are linked to inflammation, obesity and heart disease. Part of me, believes if corporations could chemically dehydrogenase leftover motor oil, so that it's palatable, they would. Ok, all of me believes that.

Here is a more detailed list of issues linked to consuming seed-oils.

• Asthma
• Autoimmune disease
• Cognitive and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety
• Cognitive decline, dementia, and  Alzheimer's disease.
• Diabetes and obesity
• Heart disease
• Gut health issues such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBD) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBS)
• Inflammation
• Infertility
• Muscular degeneration
• Osteoarthritis

What can we do?

It's simple! For one - eliminate these oils from your kitchen.  Here is a short list of the common names for these types of oils: soybean, corn, canola, cottonseed, rapeseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, and rice bran.

Instead, cook with olive oil, avocado oil, butter and even lard.

What is not so simple is avoiding these oils while eating out. It is my opinion that the best way to promote the use of healthy cooking oils is to pressure restaurants from not using low-cost seed-oils. Through education and awareness, restaurant patrons can vote with their pocketbooks by avoiding restaurants with poor cooking practices.

Adulting1101 has partnered with @seedoilkitchens to showcase restaurants that are using chemical filled seed oils in the dishes we are eating. Sadly, this includes one of my favorites restaurant pastimes, Chipotle.  Where I'm no stranger to what I call the Chipotle comma. Perhaps it's attributed to their use of Canola Oil.
Source linked below:
https://www.chipotle.co.uk/ingredients/canola-oil.html


Please feel free to get additional information relating to seed-oils and this movement to take back our health from corporate interest and profits by following @seedoilkitchens, on Instagram. I wish you nap free day.