Vegetable Oils Make You Unhealthy and Overweight

Do you want to be healthy, and be a healthy weight, but it seems like no matter what you do the weight stays on and your health declines?

Look at pictures of Americans today compared to Americans 50 or 100 years ago. We are so unhealthy and overweight compared to them!

Traditional fats like coconut oil, lard, and olive oil.

If you are unhealthy, it's not because there is something wrong with you. It's because the foods on grocery store shelves are toxic. The good news is that you can take your health into your own hands and start getting better if you change what you eat.

Making raw butter.

The medical industry pushes the line "exercise and portion size" to solve the health and obesity crisis. I have known people who desperately wanted to lose weight, who exercised their butts off and cut back on portion size till they felt like they were starving themselves, and still they couldn't lose weight. They also had systemic health problems that didn't go away.

Exercise is important, but exercise cannot undo the effects of eating toxic food.

Portion size is important, but portion size cannot undo the effects of eating toxic food.

In fact, when the food you eat is toxic, it becomes harder to exercise because you feel sluggish, and you crave more food because your body is starving for nutrition.

One of the most pervasive toxic foods that Americans eat every day is vegetable oils.

Lard from pasture raised pigs is the second highest source of natural vitamin D, second only to cod liver oil.

Vegetable Oils

"Vegetable oils" sound healthy, right? But vegetable oils are not made from vegetables.

Vegetable oils come from the seeds of industrial row crops such as soy, corn, canola, and cottonseed. These crops are often genetically modified and sprayed with pesticides. They are extracted with petro-chemical solvents. They are refined, neutralized, bleached, and deodorized. Synthetic stabilizers are added to reduce rancidity and oxidation. By the time we consume them they are usually at least partly rancid, but because of extensive processing, you can't tell they have gone bad.

These highly processed oils are recent additions to the human diet. They are the result of industrial agriculture and factory processing and are not part of ancestral diets. The food industry pushes them because they are cheap, not because they are health promoting.

The food and medical industry calls vegetable oils "heart healthy". They tell us to choose unsaturated fats from plants rather than saturated fats from animal sources because "saturated fats cause heart disease".

What proof do we have of this?

Historic populations who ate saturated fats were healthy. Populations like native Americans and Polynesians went from being healthy and fit to obese when they traded their traditional sources of fat to refined vegetable oils.

The decline in American health has risen in direct correlation with an increase in our vegetable oil consumption. Problems such as

• asthma

• obesity

• chronic inflammation

• mental health issues

• gut disorders

• infertility

• and macular degeneration

have become common and have been linked to refined oils.

In the 1980s there was a low fat craze. Every woman who wanted a slim figure was expected to count the grams of fat she ate and seek low fat products to replace high fat foods.

Home made bacon is a regular part of our diet.

I bought into the idea that fat is bad. As a teenager I went low fat. What little fat I ate was vegetable oils. I ate a lot more sugar and carbs because I was constantly hungry. I was exercising. I was doing the things they said would make me healthy. And guess what: I did not have a slim figure. As time wore on, I got more and more unhealthy.

Then I went rogue.

I started eating fat. Lots of fat. Not the industrial, "heart healthy" vegetable oils that we are supposed to eat. I ate butter. And bacon. And beef, whole (raw) milk, olive oil, pork chops with fat, eggs with the yolks, coconut oil, lard... I reached a point where I get more calories from fat--mostly saturated fats--than from protein and carbs.

I am the healthiest I have ever been.

If the industrial vegetable oils that we are told are heart healthy were actually good for us, then why are we supposed to eat low fat? Why am I so healthy now that I eat animal fats?

If you cut industrial vegetable oils from your diet, you will reduce body inflammation, lose weight, and help chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, macular degeneration, and more.

Start by throwing out all the refined vegetable oils in your house like cooking oil, crisco, and margarine. But don't stop there. What products do you have that contain refined oils? Read the ingredients of all your processed, factory made foods like:

• chips

• cookies

• pastries

• crackers

• cakes

• salad dressings

• mayonnaise

• chicken nuggets

• sauces

• frozen dinners

• dairy replacers

Grass fed raw milk is one of the most nourishing foods known to man.

Restaurant foods, especially fast food, are notorious sources of vegetable oils. It's hard to check the ingredients at a restaurant, but you can safely assume that they are frying in refined vegetable oils because vegetable oils are cheap.

There are some fast food chains that still use tallow or lard to fry their food. If you want to eat fast food, seek these out. Just because they cook with animal fats doesn't mean that their other ingredients are healthy, but at least it's better than if they used refined vegetable oils.

The effects of vegetable oil toxicity is chronic and cumulative. It is not acute. You don't become obese or develop macular degeneration after one bag of chips. It is a slow process that builds over time. That's why it's so pernicious. You don't see the effects immediately. It takes time after ridding your diet of them to heal. But if you cut refined oils from your diet, you will begin to see changes within a few weeks.

Lardons, a traditional French preserved pork fat, is a delicious food to eat on its own or to use in cooking.

The longer you go without toxic oils, the better your body will get.

Obviously, cutting ALL toxic foods out of your diet will help you make a full recovery faster. But if it feels overwhelming to go from a Standard American Diet (SAD) to a fully natural, healthy, ancestral diet, eliminating vegetable oils is a great place to start.

Oils to avoid include:

• canola

• rapeseed

• soybean

• corn

• safflower

• sunflower

• rice bran

• peanut

Healthy fats that you can eat as much as you want include:

• grass fed butter and dairy products

• grass fed beef

• pasture raised pork

• pasture raised chicken and eggs

• extra virgin olive oil

• coconut oil

• tallow and lard

• nuts

Don't settle for all the problems that come with eating processed food! You are worth good, whole foods.

Buy my grass fed raw milk and pasture raised pork to add nutritious fats to your diet!

What misinformation have you followed that made you unhealthy?