LAHORE- 2oth Century gave rise to many food brands globally and people started changing their lifestyle. In 1950’s various companies introduced Oil for cooking purpose claiming that their product will be lighter and much better of health than traditional butter.
Nowadays Vegetable oil is a vital kitchen item at every home but thinks before buying an oil bottle and the reason is that Studies have established that these so-called “heart-healthy” oils, such as sunflower, canola and cottonseed, are in fact the leading causes of chronic illnesses in America. To make matters ironic, they even cause heart disease, besides various types of cancers.
Here are the reasons why these vegetable oil are hazardous for human health:
1# Vegetable oils are often rancid due to heavy processing: A combination of high heat, pressure, and chemical solvents are used to extract vegetable oils from plants, exposing them to an incredible amount of air and light. When this occurs, these oils oxidize and become rancid, as well as lose many or all of their healing antioxidants. This renders them toxic and inflammatory.
2# Many vegetable changes into Trans fat after hydrogenation: In order to create a desirable consistency and texture for use in baking and other forms of cooking, vegetable oils are often hydrogenated to make them “creamier” and solid at room temperature. Hydrogenated and partially-hydrogenated vegetable oils are essentially trans fats that interfere with the body’s normal metabolism of nutrients, leading to health conditions such as Gastrointestinal disease, Immune system damage, Diabetes
Obesity, Cancer.
The hydrogenation process might make vegetable oils last longer on the shelf, but these oils cause toxic chemicals in the human body.
3#Vegetable oils cause cancers of the colon, breast many more: Researchers in Europe discovered several years back that trans fat intake can increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer nearly twofold. Similar case studies have demonstrated trans fat intake as a major risk factor for colon and other forms of cancer as well.
Substitute to Vegetable Oil: The best oils you can use for cooking instead of the Vegetable oil available at grocery stores are following:
Butter (preferably grass-fed butter that is darker yellow in colour)
Tallow and suet from both beef and lamb (pastured with no hormones or antibiotics)
Chicken fat (pastured with no hormones or antibiotics)
Coconut, palm, and palm kernel oils
