Canola (rapeseed) oil

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Canola (rapeseed) oil

JoAnn Guest

May 25, 2006 14:40 PDT

 

 

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by Don Harkins for the SPOTLIGHT

 

The cheapest cooking oil on the market today is called canola. It is

used to fry potatoes in fast food restaurants and is found on the

list

of ingredients for mayonnaise sold in health food stores. Canola is

taking the place of peanut oil in peanut butter and is being blended

with olive oil for domestic kitchen use.

 

Canola is a name that recently appeared in the marketplace and is

apparently derived from Canadian-oil. Canola oil is actually

produced

from the rape seed plant. Rape (Brassica napus), a member of the

mustard

family, is listed in the Encyclopedia Britannica as a poisonous

plant

with toxic effects which include ìpulmonary emphysema, respiratory

distress, anemia, constipation, irritability and blindness in cattle.

 

According to John Thomas, author of Young Again: How to Reverse the

Aging Process, ìThe name canola disguised the introduction of rape

oil

to America.

 

Rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in Great Britain between

1986

and 1991 at which time its use was discontinued, Thomas wrote.

 

Most people remember the mad cow disease epidemic and that cows,

pigs

and sheep went blind, behaved insanely, attacked other animals and

people and had to be destroyed.

 

Reports at the time blamed the erratic behavior of livestock on a

viral

disease called scrapie (in sheep and pigs) and mad cow disease in

cattle. However, when rape oil was removed from animal

feed, 'scrapie'

disappeared, Thomas explained.

 

According to Dr. Len Horowitz, author of Emerging Viruses, AIDS and

Ebola: Nature, Accident or Intentional, What is scrapie in sheep,

mad

cow disease in cattle, wasting disease in wild game animals,

whirling

disease in fish is Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in people.

 

English experts told people not to panic if they had been cooking

with

rape oil when mad cow disease was at its peak in Great Britain, said

Thomas. The 'experts' added that the effects of rape oil ingestion

takes

at least 10 years to manifest.

 

With grain prices down and grass seed growers faced with increasing

opposition to their seasonal field burning, beautiful yellow rape

fields

are contrasting deep green panoramas of what has traditionally been

field after field of grasses and grains in the northwest United

States.

Rape, the most toxic of all food-oil plants that has no natural

insectoid predators, is a weed that can grow vigorously in most

climates

and terrains throughout North America.

 

Rape toxicity

 

The toxic properties of the rape plant are cyanide-containing

compounds

called ìisothiocyanates. Thomas explains that cyanide inhibits the

production of ATP in our bodies. ATP is the energy molecule that

powers

the body and keeps us healthy and young.

 

According to Thomas, ...glaucoma is the result of insufficient blood

flow due to agglutination (clumping together) of the red blood cells

and

waste buildup on the cells and intercellular fluids. Thomas believes

that ingestion of rape over time may cause glaucoma.

 

Thomas also believes that ingestion of rape over several years

causes

other vision irregularities such as retinitis.

 

Thomas explains how the clumped red blood cells cannot squeeze

throughî

the tiny capillaries in the posterior of the eye and, therefore,

cannot

deliver oxygen to the mitochondria (the rod-shaped bodies in a cell

that

facilitate the metabolism of fats, sugars and proteins).

 

Rape oil, as metabolized in the body, produces the latex-like

substance

that causes the agglutination of red blood cells, explained Thomas.

 

In this respect, glaucoma has much in common with hair loss,

Alzheimer's

disease, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and hearing problems.

 

Rape and the central nervous system

 

Rape is an acetlycholinesterase inhibitor. Acetylcholine is critical

to

the transmission of signals from nerves to muscles.

 

When the normal

function of aceytlcholinesterase is compromised, nerve fibers are

not

able to send the signals properly and muscles will not respond as

expected.

 

In the last 20 years we have seen a dramatic increase in muscular

disorders such as multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy.

 

Soy and (rape)

oils are players in the outbreak of these disease conditions. So are

the

organophosphates--insecticides such as malthion-- used in food

production in the name of efficiency, commented Thomas.

 

There are many people throughout the country who are convinced that

rape

oil is poisonous to the human body and that the body digests rape in

such a fashion that congests the blood and

 

restricts the flow of lymph fluid

 

which can cause a myriad of physical and psychological disorders.

 

Moreover, using processed foods containing canola oil, soy oil and

chemical additives confuses the body and weakens the immune system.

 

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