Major concerns regarding our diet in the west emerged during the 1950s when the consensus on what constitutes healthy fat began.
Gone was the idea that butter and lard were good for us, now they were labelled as the cause of heart disease and weight gain.
The Sugar Lobby
The truth about this sudden switch has only come to light recently.
Researchers uncovered documents confirming that the sugar lobby paid to influence studies showing fat as the biggest threat to our health.
At the same time, the food industry scrambled to find an alternative and discovered vegetable oils.
Your Brains Worst Enemy
Vegetable oils are a product that author Catherine Shanahan calls “your brain’s worst enemy.”
Shanahan is a family doctor whose research in biochemistry and genetics led to discoveries that go against conventional dietary advice.
Her findings?
Remove vegetable oils and sugars, and stock up on animal fats, nuts and vegetables.
What About Saturated Fats?
“In the 1950s, we were told we couldn’t have saturated fats,” she told the NY Post.
“We stopped eating butter and natural fat, but still craved fatty foods, so we turned to vegetable oils.
Next, restaurants started using them because they’re so cheap.”
When research came out indicating that they were better than animal fat and lowered the risk of heart disease, they flooded supermarkets.
The Research
New research found that it’s the heating of vegetable oil that transforms them into harmful products.
They become carcinogenic and increase the chances of heart disease.
“The way these oils have been treated strips away the antioxidants,” says Shanahan.
This causes the balance between disease-fighting antioxidants and free radicals to be tipped in favour of free radicals.
This has been shown to cause disease growth.
Shanahan believes the area most affected is the brain:
“Oxidative stress disrupts the function of the brain, so the cells cannot do their normal housekeeping.”
This dysfunction is what can lead to, in Shanahan’s view, Alzheimer’s, dementia and fatigue due to a build up of plaque caused by these oils.
“The no 1 symptom someone would feel is migraines,” she believes, “they don’t realise how poorly they were thinking until they’re off this stuff.”
The Final Word
The more processing that occurs before a product is consumed, the higher the risk of developing diseases from them.
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David L. Edwards is an author, Chinese medicine physician and acupuncturist. He is the author of The Body Fat Formula and The Pocketbook guide to Chinese medicine. David is the director of Barefoot Health and Wellness health programs.
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