Hello and welcome to shopping with Dr. Ekberg. I'm just going to talk a little
bit about oils today. So for the last 50 years all we have ever heard is that
saturated fats are bad and all the unsaturated fats are good. Well it's not
quite that simple. The other thing we've heard is that vegetable fats are good
and animal fats are bad, and that's not true either. What is true is natural fats
are good for you and processed fats are bad for you. Another distinction we want
to make when it comes to oils is the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6s. Omega-3
oils are truly vegetable oils. Those are anti-inflammatory whereas omega-6 oils
are pro-inflammatory and all the oils that we typically call vegetable
oils are actually not vegetable oils. They're seed oils and
grain oils such as soy, corn, and canola. Those are not vegetables they are
omega-6 oils and therefore pro-inflammatory. So we want to base our
consumption on vegetable which means things like avocado and olive. Another
great choice is a coconut oil because even though it is saturated it is
extremely healthy. It contains, a very large, as much as 60% of short chain
fatty acids that are excellent sources of energy and that create no
inflammation at all. So this would be the worst of the worst this is what they
call a vegetable but it's actually made from beans and then it's shortening
which means that they have had hydrogenated it. This is pure poison it is right
up there with pesticides and heavy metals in terms of toxicity. It screws up
your cell membranes interfering with everything in your body. Then
we have the second worst which is extremely cheap highly processed soybean
oil. We want to definitely stay away the pro-inflammatory and they're not really
good for anything. Same thing with corn oil extremely
highly processed. Corn oil has to be extracted with solvents. It tastes
terrible so they have to bleach it and take every form of nutrients and flavor
out of it before they can use it. And that's why these things are so cheap.
Then we have something called vegetable oil and then when we look what it is we
see soybeans so again it's not a vegetable oil.
It's a from a legume. And canola same thing it's not the vegetable oil it's an
omega-6 oil. Now here we come to one of my marginal
oils this is what I use to make mayonnaise and I make my own mayonnaise
because I want something that is light and flavor but that's not an omega-6 oil.
So even though this is not the best I wouldn't consider it a super healthy
it's also not a terrible choice. It is an omega-3 oil but it is also processed to
some degree. That's why I use it in moderation but I wouldn't consider it
for cooking or eating on a regular basis.
And then we get to the good stuff so here is extra virgin olive oil. This
is a good choice, and the only thing that we want that is better is to make sure
that it's organic. And you will spend a couple of dollars more for organic but
this is still an incredibly inexpensive foods. You get thousands of calories. You
have 15,000 calories approximately in one of these bottles for $15 so it's not
going to break your budget. So you want to spend a few dollars more on getting a
high-quality oil because toxins and pesticides and hormones are fat soluble,
so anything that you eat a concentrated source of fat is also going to have a
concentrated source of toxins. So get the purest you can spend a little bit more
and again this is still very very inexpensive.
And here we go with coconut oil which is the most heat stable healthy oil there
is. So for all your cooking as much as possible
You want to use coconut oil. It's an excellent choice cook your vegetables in
it use coconut oil. And what we don't see here is the other good fat is butter.
But you want to make sure that it is grass-fed because if the cows have that
grass they have a healthy ratio between omega-3s and omega-6s. Whereas if they're
corn-fed like most of them are then they're gonna have a much higher ratio
of omega-6 S which is pro-inflammatory. So I hope this health... hope this helps
check out our future videos and our other videos on fat, and we will talk
more about these things