do you cook with canola oil soybean oil or grapeseed oil
if you do you need to stop right now at least if you care about your health
although these oils are often referred to as healthy alternatives to cooking with
saturated fat there's more to the story so in today's video i'm going to be telling you
three reasons why you should stop cooking with vegetable oil and what you should use instead
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to start your free trial today all right so before we get into why you should stop cooking with
vegetable oil let's talk about what vegetable oil is because it's not as straightforward
as you might think most of the oils that fall under the category of vegetable oils
don't even come from vegetables at all when we refer to vegetable oils we are referring
to plant oils that come from seeds high in polyunsaturated fat oils that fall under
this category include canola corn soybean grape seed sunflower cottonseed safflower rice bran and
peanut oil so when i refer to vegetable oils in this video those are the oils i'm referring to and
before we get into it i want to hear from you what oil are you currently cooking with let me know in
the comment section down below but anyways let's get into what is wrong with these oils one of the
biggest issues with them is that they are high in polyunsaturated fat and i'm going to tell you why
that's an issue there are three main types of fat polyunsaturated monounsaturated and saturated all
foods that contain fat contain some combination of the three the main difference for today's purposes
is how these fats respond to heat light and oxygen when fat reaches a certain temperature it oxidizes
and consuming fat that is oxidized creates free radicals within your body
free radicals are atoms that have one or more unpaired electron these electrons go around trying
to make themselves whole again by taking electrons from healthy cells when they take electrons
from other cells this means those cells are now missing electrons and they turn into free radicals
themselves and this causes a chain reaction and it is because of this that autoimmune conditions such
as hashimoto's arthritis and asthma have become so common these are caused by free radical damage
now back to the three main types of fat saturated fat is the most stable it can
withstand the most heat without oxidizing monounsaturated fat is slightly less stable
and polyunsaturated fat is very unstable vegetable oils are high in polyunsaturated fat
so when we cook with them and when we heat them they oxidize very easily and this is
the first reason you don't want to be cooking with vegetable oils you don't want to be consuming them
because they lead to free radical damage and eventually autoimmune conditions and even if
you're not using vegetable oils to cook you still should be avoiding them they are already heated to
high temperatures during processing so more often than not when you buy them they're already rancid
do you ever wonder why they don't taste like anything and why they're such a neutral color it
is because they are stripped of their flavor and their color to hide the fact that they're rancid
pretty gross right the second reason you don't want to be cooking with vegetable oils
is because they are very high in omega-6 fatty acids and these cause inflammation in the body
both omega-6 and omega-3 are essential but too much omega-6 can be a problem
that is because both of them use the same pathway in the body to be converted to their final form
high omega-6 in your diet and that means that little omega-3 can be converted you want to be
consuming a ratio of the two of roughly one-to-one anything under four to one is considered good but
some of these oils are as high as 700 to 1 in favor of omega-6 in the case of grapeseed oil
corn oil is 46 to 1 and soybean is 16 to 1. the average consumption for americans is 21-1
and this leads to the average daily consumption for americans being 20 to 1. vegetable oils are
the number one source of omega-6 in our diet high omega-6 and low omega-3 cause inflammation
and if the two are always out of balance you become chronically inflamed chronic inflammation
is the root cause of almost all modern day diseases including heart disease cancer diabetes
and arthritis and it can also lead to obesity and ibs so if i haven't scared you off cooking
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you want to stop cooking with vegetable oils because of the way vegetable oils are processed
trans fat is created and i'm not even talking about where trans fats are added on purpose
to make products more shelf stable this has become a lot less common since the severe risks of trans
fat became well known the chemicals and the heat that these oils are exposed to during processing
unintentionally leads to the creation of trans fat and the scary thing is is that if
there is less than 0.5 grams of trans fat per serve it can be written as 0 grams on a label
and of course a serve of vegetable oil is usually a tablespoon or less
and even though it may seem like this is a trace amount any amount of trans fat is too much
for every two percent increase of trans fat in your diet your risk of heart disease is
nearly doubled so if vegetable oils are so bad what should we be cooking with instead
oils that are high in monounsaturated fat and saturated fat are better options
these types of fat are easily extracted from the plant or animal they come from and are
more heat stable as we spoke about earlier think of what it takes to get the oil out of an olive
versus a corn kernel the olive you can literally squish with your hand and the oil is released
and the corn kernel requires a lot more processing so anything that is easier to extract is going
to be a better option for cooking saturated fat is the best option for high temperature cooking
so these are things such as coconut oil tallow ghee lard and duck fat are also good
anything that's solid at room temperature is going to be the best option for cooking
monounsaturated fats are better options for low temperature cooking so these are olive
oil avocado oil and macadamia nut oil so ditch the vegetable oils and use these ones instead
anyways guys that is all i have for you today let me know in the comment section down below
what your favorite oil is to use for cooking have you been using vegetable oils
thinking they're a healthier option let me know down below and before you go remember to check
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