Health and Fitness Tip #72 - Oils: Healthy Vs. Unhealthy

Oils: Healthy Vs. Unhealthy

ALL vegetable oils sold at the grocery store and in most restaurants are toxic to your body... they are all heavily refined, damaged fats that cause serious inflammation and damage to the cells of your body.  And yes, in addition to soybean oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, this also includes health-damaging canola oil too as one of the top offenders.

Aside from sugar, vegetable oils are THE worst part of our food supply that cause the MOST disease.

On the other hand, you've also heard that the truly healthy oils and fats to cook or bake with are...

  -coconut oil,

  -extra virgin olive oil (for some uses, but not high heat),

  -macadamia oil,

  -and grass-fed butter.

But there's a problem with Coconut Oil...

1.  Coconut oil -- Although coconut oil has some extremelly healthy saturated fats called MCTs, along with tons of other health benefits, the taste often doesn't match certain savory dishes.  Coconut oil is great for baking, or anything sweet, but it just doesn't give the best taste for cooking eggs, veggies, and other savory dishes.  The coconut flavor can often overpower the other flavors in many dishes.

But there's a problem with Olive Oil...

2. Olive oil -- Although extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is another very healthy oil with proven studies showing dozens of amazing health benefits, it doesn't provide the right taste for baked goods like muffins, cookies, cakes, or pancakes.  

But the REAL problem with olive oil is that most of the EVOO you find in the store isn’t really pure EVOO.  A major investigation (which was featured in the NY Times) exposed how some olive oil producers were “cutting” their oil with cheap, refined inflammatory vegetable oil and selling it off as pure EVOO.

In fact, researchers uncovered that 69% of EVOO sold in stores is partially fake, fraudulently diluted with cheap and inflammatory vegetable oils!  This is why I always recommend getting the highest quality EVOO you can find.