Guest guest Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Caught in Canola Oil Confusion? JoAnn Guest Sep 03, 2005 10:32 PDT ======================================================================= " I recently heard that canola oil is really an industrial oil and not fit for human consumption. What's your opinion? " -- Susan Foster (Published 12/04/1998) In the past, I've recommended canola oil as an acceptable monounsaturated oil to use in cooking when the flavor of olive oil -- another monounsaturated oil and the healthiest " type " of fat -- was too strong. I now think that there's rarely, if ever, a need for canola oil. A light extra virgin olive oil is neutral enough even for baking. Canola oil is extracted from rapeseed, a plant in the cabbage family. Rapeseed oil is the traditional cooking oil of India and southern China, but the kind we use was bred in Canada to contain less erucic acid, a " toxic " amino acid, than other varieties and has been marketed as " canola oil " (Canadian oil) instead. We know from research studies that populations that consume olive oil as a primary dietary fat have significantly " lower rates " of both heart disease and cancer than those that don't. We have no comparable epidemiological data for canola. Also unlike olive oil, canola oil doesn't contain " oleic acid " , the fatty acid our bodies " process " best. I've always cautioned against buying canola oil found in supermarkets. These products have been extracted with " chemical solvents " or high-speed presses that " generate heat " . Both methods alter the oil's fatty acid " chemistry " in undesirable ways. Furthermore, canola oil producers use a lot of pesticides on their crops, and I suspect that residues find their way into the finished product. If you use canola oil, I suggest buying only the organic, expeller-pressed varieties sold in natural-food stores. http://www.drweil.com/app/cda/drw_cda.html-command=TodayQA-questionId=3424-pt=Qu\ estion ===================================================================== Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject: Canola Oil - A must Read ------------------------------- Canola is trash oil. It is made from a noxious (read toxic) weed that has been " genetically altered " and the oil is then " processed " by hydrogenating (embued with hydrogen atoms) to withstand spoiling. All hydrogenated oils are " poison " to our bodies but this one is probably one of the worst ones. (hydrogenating vegetable oils is very similar to the way that the first plastics were made.) Frank Integrated Health --- Canola Oil - A must Read Before you buy your next bottle of cooking oil... I think it's important that as many people as possible KNOW about the origins of this product. Then, if you choose to buy it, at least you're doing so with your eyes open. RAPE IN A DIFFERENT GUISE Dear Editors Recently I bought a cooking oil that's new to our supermarkets, Canola Oil. I tried it because the label assured me it was lowest in " bad " fats. However, when I had used half the bottle, I concluded that the label told me surprisingly little else and I started to wonder: where does canola oil come from? Olive oil comes from olives, peanut oil from peanuts, sunflower oil from sunflowers; but what is a canola? There was nothing on the label to enlighten me, which I thought odd. So, I did some investigatingon the Internet. There are plenty of official Canola sites lauding this new " wonder " oil with all its low-fat health benefits. It takes a little longer to find sites that tell the less palatable details. Here are just a few facts everyone should know before buying anything containing canola. Canola is not the name of a natural plant but a made-up word, from the words " Canada " and " oil " . Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in Canada from the Rapeseed Plant, which is part of the mustard family of plants. According to AgriAlternatives, The Online Innovation, and Technology Magazine for Farmers, " By nature, these rapeseed oils, which have long been used to produce oils for industrial purposes, are... toxic to humans and other animals " . (This, by the way, is one of thewebsites singing the praises of the canola industry.) Rapeseed oil is poisonous to living things and is an excellent " insect repellent " . I have been using it (in very diluted form, as per instructions) to kill the aphids on my roses for the last two years. It works very well; it " suffocates " them. Ask for it at your nursery. Rape is an oil that is used as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base and as a illuminate for color pages in magazines. It is an industrial oil. It is not a food. Rape oil, it seems, causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation, irritability, and blindness in animals and humans. Rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986 and 1991, when it was thrown out. Remember the " Mad Cow disease " scare, when millions of cattle in the UK were slaughtered in case of infecting humans? Cattle were being fed on a mixture containing material from dead sheep, and sheep suffer from a disease called " scrapie " . It was thought this was how " Mad Cow " began and started to " infiltrate " the human chain. What is interesting is that when rape oil was removed from animal feed, 'scrapie' disappeared. We also haven't seen any further reports of " Mad Cow " since rape oil was removed from the feed. Perhaps not scientifically proven, but interesting all the same. US and Canadian farmers grow genetically engineered rapeseed and manufacturers use its oil (canola) in thousands of " processed foods " , with the blessings of Canadian and US government watchdog agencies. The canola supporting websites say that canola is safe to use. They admit it was developed from the rapeseed, but insist that through " genetic engineering " it is no longer rapeseed, but " canola " instead. Except canola means " Canadian oil " ; and the plant is *still* a rape plant, albeit genetically modified. The new name provides perfect " cover " for commercial interests wanting to make millions. Look at the ingredients list on labels. Apparently peanut oil is being replaced with rape oil. You'll find it in an alarming number of " processed " foods. There's more, but to conclude: rape oil was the source of the chemical warfare agent mustard gas, which was banned after blistering the lungs and skins of hundred of thousands of soldiers and civilians during W.W.I. Recent French reports indicate that it was again in use during the Gulf War. Check products for ingredients. If the label says, " may contain the following " and lists canola oil, you know it contains canola oil because it is the " cheapest " oil and the Canadian government subsidizes it to industries involved in food processing. I don't know what you'll be cooking with tonight, but I'll be using olive oil and old-fashioned butter, from a genetically " unmodified " cow. Here is more information..........Canola oil from the rape seed, referred to as the Canadian oil because Canada is mainly responsible for it being marketed in the USA. The Canadian government and industry paid our Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) $50 million dollars to have canola oil placed on the (GRAS) List, " Generally Recognized As Safe " . Thus a new industry was created. Laws were enacted affecting international trade, commerce, and traditional diets. Studies with lab. animals were disastrous. Rats developed " fatty degeneration " of heart, kidney, adrenals, and thyroid gland. When canola oil was withdrawn from their diets, the deposits " dissolved " but scar tissue remained on all vital organs. No studies on humans were made before money was spent to promote Canola oil in the USA. Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare fatal degenerative disease caused by a " build up " long-chain fatty acids (c22 to c28) which " destroys " the myelin (protective sheath) of the nerves. Canola oil is a very long chain fatty acid oil (c22). Those who will defend canola oil say that the Chinese and Indians have used it for centuries with no effect, however it was in an " unrefined " form (taken from FATS THAT HEAL AND FATS THAT KILL by Udo Erasmus). My cholesterol level was 150. After a year using Canola oil I tested 260. I switched back to pure olive oil and it has taken 5 years to get it down to 160. Thus began this project to find answers since most Doctors will say that Canola oil is O.K. Our Father bred birds, always checking labels to insure there was no rape seed in their food. He said, " The birds will eat it, but they do not live very long. " . A friend, who worked for only 9 mo. as a quality control taster at an apple-chip factory where Canola oil was used exclusively for frying, developed numerous health problems. These included loose teeth & gum disease; numb hands and feet; swollen arms and legs upon rising in the morning; extreme joint pain especially in hands, cloudy vision, constipation with stools like black marbles, hearing loss; skin tears from being bumped; lack of energy; hair loss and heart pains. It has been five years since she has worked there and still has some joint pain, gum disease, and numbness. A fellow worker, about 30 years old, who ate very little product, had a routine check up and found that his blood vessels were like those of an 80 year old man. Two employees fed the waste product to baby calves and their hair fell out. After removing the fried apple chips from the diet their hair grew back in. Rape seed oil is a penetrating oil, to be used in light industry, not for human consumption. It contains a toxic substance. Even after the processing to reduce the erucic acid content, it is still a penetrating oil. We have found that it turns rancid very fast. Rape seed oil used for stir-frying in China found to emit cancer causing chemicals. (Rapeseed oil smoke causes lung cancer) Amal Kumar Maj. TheWall Street JournaL June 7, 1995 pB6(W) pB6 (E) col 1(11 col in). Compiled by Darleen Bradley. Canola oil is a health hazard to use as a cooking oil or salad oil. It is not the healthy oil we thought it was. It is not fit for human consumption, do not eat canola oil, it can hurt you. Polyunsaturated or not, this is a bad oil. Be Sure to also read the informative report written by leading health expert Tom Valentine, Canola Oil Report. Go to Ask Jeeves yourself: http://www.askjeeves.com/ and type in (Where does Canola Oil come from?) and see what you come up with. *Heating* Oil: The heating of oil can produce cancer-causing byproducts. The lung cancer incidence in Chinese women is among the highest in the world, but tobacco smoking accounts for only a minority of the cancers. Chinese women are exposed to indoor air pollution from wok cooking. Cancer causing chemicals from heating cooking oils are dispersed into the air. In a recent experiment several cooking oils and EFA were heated in a wok to boiling (J Natl Cancer Inst 87:836, 1995). The oils tested were unrefined Chinese rapeseed, refined U.S. rapeseed (known as canola), Chinese soybean, and Chinese peanut, in addition to linolenic, linoleic, and erucic fatty acids. Cancer causing substances such as 1,3-butadiene, benzene, acrolein, formaldehyde, and other related compounds were detected, with emissions tending to be highest for unrefined Chinese rapeseed (canola)oil. Among the individual fatty acids tested, heated linolenic acid produced the greatest quantities of cancer causing substances (1,3-butadiene, benzene, and acrolein). Condensates from heated linolenic acid, but not linoleic or erucic acid, were found to be highly cancer causing. _________________ JoAnn Guest mrsjo- www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets AIM Barleygreen " Wisdom of the Past, Food of the Future " http://www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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