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Whole foods is best, or as you call it REAL food. Right? We try, hard, but in Canada in January, February, it's difficult not to mention expensive. Still, knowledge is power. There's usually a way.

Good job getting the message out Tim. :)

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Yes, winter in Canada means food is less fresh. All we can do is try to keep the processed food down, and try for things with three or less ingredients.

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Boom! In the early 1900's Procter and Gamble were trying to profit from waste engine lubricant. They used it to make Crisco (crystalized cottonseed oil). Then they donated a ton of money to create the American Heart Association, which subsequently promoted it as 'heart healthy.' And here we are today. This is criminal.

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Yes. Dr. Evil is fictional, but story is not! These companies literally had oil lying around as a byproduct and wanted to make money off of it. So now, we eat and pay them.

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I have Crohn's Disease Tim so I have to stay away from foods that promote inflammation. I never knew Canola oil promoted inflammation so much. I will start staying the hell away from it PRONTO.

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I didn’t talk about hexane much, but they use that to clean the canola and there may be traces of that in it as well- it isn’t a supportive “food”

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The best sentence in this whole article:

"What doesn't contain vegetable oil? REAL FOOD!"

Humans have strayed SO far away from eating what the planet naturally provides for us! All in the name of speed and convenience.

I'm so glad you mentioned olive oil at the end because I was beginning to wonder wth I should be cooking with!

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You're safe with good quality olive oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, butter, and (gasp!) animal fats. A sign that they are safe is that they solidify after cooking, in the pan. Or in the case of olive and avocado oil, they thicken in the fridge and you can't pour them easily. Vegetable oil never thickens, because it's grown in more northern climates and comes from seeds instead of fruit like an avocado or olive.

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As much as I'd love to be pure vegan, I do use butter and find it useful. But I always cook with olive oil.

Thanks for all this!

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I'm on a "clean" diet. Studying what my sick liver can handle made me think that my cocaine and meth diets were as healthy as any processed foods from the grocery store. I say that tongue in cheek, but if it comes in a box, has more than two ingredients, undergoes more than one "process" between the source and the consumer, or is white, it's probably garbage.

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That is exactly it. The good news is that quite often the liver can heal from a lot of damage if it's given half a chance! Our bodies are pretty tough so we can handle a bit of that garbage, as long as we give it some good clean food to rebuild with. I hope your liver is on the mend.

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I had no idea how bad vegetable oil is and likely I don’t consume much of it.

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That's good. It's important to be aware of what's in our food, so it really pays to read those labels!

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Oh my goodness - I didn't know - wow - even mayo??!!

Thanks for a very informative post

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That's the one that surprised me the most. We always thought that mayo would go bad, because it was made out of eggs, right? It's really only 10% egg product. And that stuff that says "Made with Olive Oil?" Yeah, made with a tiny bit of olive oil, but still the exact same stuff made out of vegetable oil! Flagrant misleading of the consumer.

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Enter Austin Powers: "Oh, behave!"

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I wish Austin Powers would show up and foil this plot! Unfortunately, he's probably frozen or travelled back in time or something.

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Thanks for your opinion! I’m grateful for your comment.

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If I had one recommendation as a health coach, it would be to stop eating so much vegetable oil! It has a half-life in your body of 680 days. So if it ends up in your cells, it takes 680 days to get rid of HALF of it, assuming you don’t eat any more! A steady diet of vegetable oil will take years to rectify if you get healthy.

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Wrong on all counts. All human beings process the same. There is no culture in history of world that survived on low carbs. Go read Dr McDougall’s articles on same. He has been at this since 1977. Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. T Colin Campbell have all reached same conclusions. Read what they have to say as well.

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Cooking with olive oil is no better than others. They are all the most processed foods. Dr John McDougall says that “The fat you eat is the fat you wear.” No dairy, meat, fish or fat of any kind (except in real foods like avocado). All his talks and articles are freely available.

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That’s an interesting perspective, and it’s true that you don’t need to cook with extra added fat. But it depends on what your perspective is. Are you metabolically flexible, so you can burn fat as a fuel? That would be the case if you are keto adapted. For those people, who eat very low carb, you use the fat you eat as energy. So the fat you eat is NOT Necessarily the fat you wear. And In fact, I would argue that the sugar and grain you eat gets turned into triglycerides, moved through your bloodstream, sent to the fat cells, and TURNED INTO the fat you wear.

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