Guest guest Posted November 15, 2004 Report Share Posted November 15, 2004 The Canola *Hoax*- (Revisited) Mar 20, 2003 12:13 PST The high praise for Canola is propaganda put forth by the Canadian government because " can-ola, " a hybridized rape plant, is one of that nation's chief export products. The truth is that rapeseed oil (canola) contains toxic 'erucic' acid. Health food store operators parrot the hype without checking out any of the facts. Consumers search out various products with Canola oil in them because they believe that it is somehow much healthier than other oils. All food grade Canola, including the varieties sold in health food stores, are deodorized with 300 degree F. high-temperature refining. You cannot cook a vegetable oil at that temperature and leave behind anything very edible. In 1996, the Japanese announced a study wherein a special Canola oil diet had actually killed laboratory animals. Reacting to this unpublished, but verified and startling information, a duplicate study was conducted by Canadian scientists using piglets and a Canola oil based milk replacer diet. In this second study published in Nutrition Research, 1997, v17, the researchers verified that Canola oil somehow depleted the piglets of vitamin E to a dangerously low level. In the abstract of the study, the Canadian researchers made the following remarkable statement: It is known that ingestion of oils containing polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) of the n-3 and n -6 series results in a high degree of unsaturation in membrane phospholipids, which in turn may increase lipid peroxidation, cholesterol oxidation, free radical accumulation and membrane damage. All very bad attributes. That statement is remarkable because PUFA is considered essential to a healthy diet. Yet none of the above listed results of eating it may be considered healthy. So now we have something seemingly brand new to the dietary health arena. Here the Canadians are condemning an oil that supposedly contains essential fatty acids. EFAs cannot stand heat. They turn rancid quickly. Proper processing, i.e., cold pressing, and protection from oxygen for storage is paramount with EFAs. Mainstream toxic commercial food making requires complete removal of EFAs lest shelf life disappear in smelly rancidity. Absent the removal of EFAs, few manufactured toxic chemical foods would make it out of the warehouse. So, here we have Canadians telling us that their country's main oil export kills little animals (piglets). They suggest that perhaps it was the health giving EFAs left in the Canola oil after it had been scorched at temperatures above 300 degrees Fahrenheit to get rid of the EFAs. They don't tell you that whatever EFAs are left in the oil, are now poisonous rancid fats. It may be that the now toxic remnants are what's killing the vitamin E, and killing the little piggies. I think the Canadians produced that deceptive half truth to protect their careers from grant drought. Firstly, the idea of something depleting vitamin E rapidly is an alarming development. Vitamin E is absolutely essential to human health, and when so much PUFA is available to diet as it is today, the demand evidently becomes even more imperative because tocopherols control the lipid peroxidation that results in dangerous free radical activity, which causes lesions in arteries and other problems. Canola oil now has been shown to be a very heavy abuser of tocopherols or vitamin E, with the potential for rapidly depleting a body of the important vitamin. The researchers did not know what factors in the Canola oil were responsible. They reported that other vegetable seed oils did not appear to cause the same problem in piglets. " Genetically Manipulated " Canola Seed Gets Loose In The Fields Monsanto announced in April 1997, that it was recalling genetically engineered Canola seed because an *unapproved gene* slipped into the batch by mistake. The Canola seed had been " genetically manipulated " to resist the herbicide toxicity of Roundup, which is Monsanto's top money making product. The recall involved 60,000 bags containing two types of Canola seed, which is enough to plant more than 700,000 acres. Both types of seed have the wrong gene in them. The genes in the recalled seed have not been approved for human consumption. A spokesman for Limagrain Canada Seeds, which was selling the seeds under a Monsanto license, said that experts are trying to determine how the mistake occurred. " We may never know how this happened " , he lamented. The implications of this error are serious. No one in his right mind is unconcerned about genetic manipulations getting lost. On January 26, 1998 Omega Nutrition, one of the major producers of organic, cold pressed oils for the health food store market published a press release. The release states that if you are cooking with Canola oil of any quality, you may as well be using *margarine*. In the case of refined Canola oil, the important health benefits have been processed away- leaving the consumer with the nutrition of say, white flour- and, dangerous 'trans-fatty acids' have replaced a lot of the beneficial omega 3 essential fatty acids. MARGARINE isn't raised as an issue on those pages. So I will make a brief statement here about it. (Oleo) Margarine isn't food. It is a manufactured grease concocted in a machine from various oils and chemicals. Canola and soy fats (oils) are in nearly all margarines. This butter 'substitute' does not exist in nature. It cannot be grown or converted from a natural food as butter and cheese is. It was invented to win a prize when Napolean III was surrounded and ran a contest for a " palatable grease " for his otherwise dry bread. Most restaurants substitute it for butter without notice to you. Commercially manufactured ingestables use margarine wherever Canola cannot be used in their recipe that otherwise would use butter. There are licensed dieticians and physicians who, in total ignorance, will sincerely urge you to eat this *poison* in pursuit of better health. The usual canard is, " It will reduce your cholesterol levels. " which is yet another awesome fraud THE CANOLA STORY It's often called Canada's " miracle crop " . It's marketed as a healthy alternative, and, for the moment, growers can even make a living. But is Canola oil actually healthy? And for whom? The name Canola, from " Canada oil " , was the signal that some sophisticated marketing was going to take place. Canola was the first crop created modern plant breeding methods. It is usually credited to Baldur Stefanson at the University of Manitoba, who took rapeseeed, previously used as a lubricant in ship engines, and bred varieties that were low in erucic acid and glucosinates. In 1979 the Rapeseed Crushers Association decided the new " double low " varieties should be given a different name to avoid association with previous rapeseed products sold as cooking oil. It was no coincidence the new name rhymed with granola. As concerns over levels of saturated fat in other oil products grew, the new product entered the market as an alternative low in saturated fat, but high in desirable oleic acid. Demand skyrocketed and farmers rushed to buy seed. But before we add the happy-ever-after to this technological tale, there are some important issues to consider. What might seem healthy for city dwellers to consume isn't necessarily healthy for people where it is grown, for workers who handle the materials used, or for the environment. A typical Canola crop starts with seeds treated with fungicide for seedling diseases, and often an insecticide to prevent damage from flea beetles. After the seedlings emerge, herbicides are applied to control weeds. Canola yields can also be affected by a variety of insect problems, for which the remedy is often aerial spraying, and a fungus problem just prior to harvest called Sclerotinia. This focus on chemicals isn't that different from cereal crops that are grown conventionally and this is not to say that other oilseeds are any better. The problem is that instead of finding ways to use less or no herbicides and a lot less fuel and synthetic fertilizer, we are promoting a crop that is very difficult to grow organically. Also, Canola is the first crop in Canada to receive a license for " transgenic " varieties - plants altered with *genetic* material from other plants or animals. Typically, the transgenic varieties are designed by chemical companies to require the application of their favorite brand of herbicide. Given the cancer risk, would you call a food crop that is increasingly dependent on herbicides, fungicides, and even aerial spraying of pesticides, " healthy? " While prairie provinces export thousands of tonnes of Canola oil (and they have begun to make a diesel fuel out of it), if you want to buy a quality cold pressed edible version, you're not going to find a prairie product. This to me is the equivalent of France selling no Champagne, no Beaujolais, just cheap plonk in screw top bottles. In most cases the best ingredients in oil are seriously damaged or destroyed by the industrial-type processing that occurs. As detailed by oils expert Udo Erasmus, in his 1988 pamphlet Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill, most oil is refined with *acids* and the same base that 'unclogs' drains. Then the bleaching process removes " every essential nutrient except fatty acids. " http://www.udoerasmus.com Then deodorization by steam distillation distorts some fatty acids into " trans-fatty acids " which interfere with beneficial ingredients in oils. But any of this is mostly irrelevant if we are eating deep- fried doughnuts or French Fries, or frying our food until the oil smokes or eating margarine made from hydrogenated oil. And for most consumers that is their experience with Canola. And so it is only a cynical manipulation to promote the nutritional value of Canola, when the nutrients don't make it to the table. This manipulation -and the manipulation of seeds, of processes and commodities markets - is only possible because most of our population is no longer involved in food production. That's not healthy. Toby Maloney is an environmental activist living Boissevain, in the southwestern Manitoba grain belt. This article first appeared in City Magazine. - NL - Distributed by Mission Possible Canada - 308-40 Bay Mills Blvd - Toronto - ON - Canada -MIT3P5 THE CANOLA OIL HOAX By Carol Clark Keppler, B.S., M.A. Tue, 25 Aug 1998 13:56:39 -0400 Hoax? An intentional deception? The truth is -- we don't know the truth, or we'd be more than a little concerned. It looks like the American public has been sold a bill of goods -- again. We believed the immunization hype about flu shots for adults, and that the AIDS epidemic was caused by " green monkeys " , didn't we? Here's the latest one -- Canola oil for health conscious Americans! An overnight, instant top seller, Canola oil is on the tip of everyone's tongue -- not to mention in their blood and throughout their bodies. Big displays in every health food store, touted in ads for healthy french fries by a local burger place, Canola oil is advertised by a local supermarket as being in all their baked goods. Used in salad dressings, in mayonnaise, cereals, cookies and in thousands of foods -- Canola is there with government approval. WHERE DID IT COME FROM? How much do we know about it? Here are some facts: 1) Used as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base as well as an illuminant for slick color pages in magazines. 2) It forms latex-like substances that cause red blood corpuscles to clump together. 3) It's real name is RAPESEED OIL, renamed, CANOLA OIL, (Canada Oil) for obvious reasons. It's one of the main crops grown in Canada where it is being field tested. It's grown in the United States as well. 4) Rape Oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986-1991 but no longer is used because of the animals that went blind and mad ('MAD COW DISEASE'). 5) Experts agree that the effects of ingested Rapeseed Oil take at least 10 years to manifest - so not to be concerned. 6) Rapeseed is a member of the mustard family, one of the most toxic of all plants, and is shunned by insects. 7) Mustard gas, which was banned in war because it blisters lungs and skin, is made from rapeseeds. Irradiation (!) is used to turn the rapeseed oil into acceptable Canola Oil?? What are the effects of Canola oil in our diet over a period of time? I think we're just beginning to see them, but, as yet, no one has put it all together. Symptoms usually come on so slowly one might not be aware that there is a problem. Strange new diseases involving the nervous system may be caused by Canola oil which *dissolves* the myelin sheath off of the nerves throughout the body. As a matter of fact, the heating of most oils during the cooking process does the same thing. Very gradually over the years, symptoms develop, which at first are perhaps only annoying, but which eventually will be diagnosed as a disease. Robert came to the Center with unexplained exhaustion and numbness and tingling in his extremities. Mary's husband was concerned because, he said, she was hyper-sensitive. A 2 year-old child cried all the time and was considered a " difficult child " . Ray was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. June had heart arrhythmia's and a hearing problem All these symptoms were linked to loss of " myelin sheath " . Most of these people knew they had used Canola oil over the years. MILES OF NERVES The nervous system, once the insulation is stripped, can be likened to you home with bare wires inside the walls --a dangerous situation. In the body, symptoms may be many and varied: 1) tremors, shaking, " palsy " due to malfunction of nerve impulse transmissions, 2) uncoordination walking, writing and other automatic physical movements, 3) slurred speech, 4) excessive salivation, 5) deterioration of memory and thinking processes, 6) blurred vision, 7) fuzzy or low audio levels, difficulty urinating/incontinence, 9) environmental sensitivity/allergic to smells, food, clothing, electrical equipment, 10) breathing problems/short of breath, 11) nervous/nervous breakdown, 12) numbness and tingling in extremities, 13) heart problems/arrhythmia's. Little wonder. Canola oil contains erucic acid in the oil and glucosinolates in the meal, both toxic to humans and animals. WHAT CAN YOU DO? Do not use Canola Oil. Read labels. If you eat out often, choose restaurants that don't use Canola (ask!). For cooking use Walnut Oil, Almond Oil, or Extra-virgin Olive oil. It can be found in some health food stores -- or make it yourself by skimming foam). Good oils (other than for cooking/baking) are Safflower, Sunflower, Sesame, Flax Seed and Extra-Virgin Olive (never goes rancid). Buy in glass containers -- never pliable plastic which leaches the solvent toluene in the contents. Make your concerns known to burger places, restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets and with letters to newspapers. Write to talk shows like " 20/20 " * and " 60 Minutes " *. Send this article and ask them to investigate. Demand full disclosure labeling and knowledge of testing procedures. Request that notices be put up. The body may be detoxified after the colon is cleansed and functioning. Thereafter, specific herbal formulas are used to rebuild the myelin sheath. This process may take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks. S U M M A R Y Before you read the following article, here is a summary of a few facts regarding Canola Oil: It is genetically engineered Rapeseed. Canada paid the FDA the sum of $50 million to have rape registered and recognized as " safe " . (Source: Young Again and others) Rapeseed is a lubricating oil used by small industry. It has never been meant for human consumption. It is derived from the mustard family and is considered a toxic and poisonous weed, which when processed, becomes rancid very quickly. It has been shown to cause lung cancer (Wall Street Journal: 6/7/95) It is very inexpensive to grow and harvest. Generally Rapeseed has a cumulative effect, taking almost 10 years before symptoms begin to manifest. It has a tendency to inhibit proper metabolism of foods and prohibits normal enzyme function. Canola is a Trans Fatty Acid, which has shown to have a direct link to cancer. These Trans Fatty acids are labeled as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Avoid all of them! According to John Thomas' book, Young Again, 12 years ago in England and Europe, rape seed was fed to cows, pigs and sheep who later went blind and began attacking people. There were no further attacks after the rape seed was eliminated from the diet. Source: David Dancu, N.D. By Jim Lynn, Essential Oils It's amazing to me...The more research I do, the more I see a relationship between the food we eat and fatal diseases. Canola oil is no exception. Readers of EOO are familiar with the meat industry practice of feeding rendered meat " by-products " to cattle and poultry (EOO #015), and the suspected relationship of Mad Cow Disease to CJD and Alzheimer's Disease (EOO #016). Now comes information that Canola Oil is the suspected causative agent for Scrapie, a viral disease transmitted to cattle who were fed rendered sheep infected with Scrapie. Both Scrapie and Mad Cow Disease destroy the brain's ability to function. They literally eat the brain away, causing blindness, loss of mind and erratic behavior. Canola oil's real name is " LEAR " oil (Low Erucic Acid Rape). it is more commonly known as " rape oil, " a semi-drying oil that is used as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base, and as an illuminant to give color pages in magazines their slick look. In short it is an industrial oil that does not belong in the human body. It is typically referred to in light industry as a penetrating oil. Back in the 1980's, rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and throughout Europe. It was banned in 1991. Since then, Scrapie in sheep has totally disappeared. While that's good for Europeans, it is bad for Americans because the problem is now ours. Rape seed oil (Canola oil) is widely used in thousands of processed foods...with the blessings of our own government. Canola oil was first developed in Canada. It's proponents claim that due to genetic engineering and irradiation, it is no longer rape oil, but " Canola " (Canadian oil). Studies of Canola oil done on rats indicate many problems. Rats developed fatty degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals and thyroid gland. When the Canola oil was withdrawn from their diet, the deposits dissolved, but scar tissue remained on the organs. Why were no studies done on humans before the FDA placed it on the GRAS list? Consumed in food, Canola oil depresses the *immune system*, causing it to " go to sleep. " Canola oil is high in glycosides which cause health problems by blocking (inhibiting) enzyme function. it's effects are accumulative, taking years to show up. One possible effect of long term use is the destruction of the protective coating surrounding nerves called the myelin sheath. When this protective sheath is gone, our nerves short-circuit causing erratic, uncontrollable movements. To test the industrial penetrating strength of Canola oil, soak a towel in both Canola oil and regular vegetable oil. Pre-treat and wash the towel in your clothes washer and compare the area the two oils occupied...you will notice an oil stain remains on the area soaked in Canola oil. It is so durable, it could take several washings to completely remove. Now if this is how Canola oil penetrates the fabric of a towel, what damage can it do in your body? Because Canola oil is so cheap, it is now widely used in the food industry. If you are curious, just read a few food labels the next time you are in the grocery store. A good example can be found with commercially prepared peanut butter. In order to give peanut butter it's spreadability, Jiffy, Peter Pan and Skippy brands remove ALL of the natural peanut oil and replace it with Canola oil. Natural peanut butter should only have peanuts and salt listed in the ingredients. If you want to use natural peanut butter, it's available in most stores next to the Canola peanut butter. Stir the contents to mix- the oil and peanuts together then store in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will prevent the peanut oil from separating. Best of all, you will have eliminated at least one source of a potential food hazard. Food consumers have headaches enough, without worrying about a toxic plant oil being added to their food. The problem is you will find- Canola oil in bread, margarines, and all manner of processed foods including potato chips. But the consumer is king. Be informed and make it a practice to read the package ingredients label as to what is in the food Resources: Perceptions, Aug/Sep 96 issue, The Great Canola Debate Perceptions, Nov/Dec 95 issue, The Devil's Bargain Book, Fats That Heal and Fats That Kill, by Udo Erasmus With high temperatures, trans fatty acids are fats that are twisted, which alter their natural " cis " shape. We studied how the trans fatty acids from foods affected the liver's mixed function oxidase enzyme system that metabolizes drugs and environmental pollutants in the body. An important finding of this latter study was that laboratory animals fed experimental diets containing trans fatty acids have altered activity of this enzyme system. _________________ JoAnn Guest mrsjoguest DietaryTipsForHBP www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Genes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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