The Canola *Hoax*

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The Canola *Hoax*- (Revised) JoAnn Guest

May 22, 2007 11:52 PDT

 

 

THE DANGERS OF CANOLA OIL

Canola Oil Deadly for the Human Body!

CANOLA OIL REPORT

 

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. Rapeseed oil contains toxic

erucic acid.

 

Health food store operators parrot the hype without checking any

facts. Consumers search out various products with Canola oil in them

because they believe this is somehow much healthier than other oils.

 

All food grade Canola, including the varieties sold in health food

stores, are deodorized from its natural terrible stink with 300

degree F. high-temperature refining. You cannot cook a vegetable oil

at that temperature and leave behind anything much 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unpublished, but verified and startling information, a duplicate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 any oil that 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.

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 might 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.

 

8) 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,

8) 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. She 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.

 

 

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JoAnn Guest

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[Guest guest]

I've been told not to cook with extra-virgin olive oil, but this

article says that it's safe.? It also says it's safe to cook with

walnut and almond oil. I like to cook with coconut oil as well. Does

anyone have any other suggestions of oil to use in cooking/baking?

 

 

, " JoAnn Guest "

<angelprincessjo wrote:

>

> The Canola *Hoax*- (Revised) JoAnn Guest

> May 22, 2007 11:52 PDT

>

>

> THE DANGERS OF CANOLA OIL

> Canola Oil Deadly for the Human Body!

> CANOLA OIL REPORT

>

[Guest guest]

I use both coconut oil and butter for frying. Coconut oil is best

when it is not extracted from copra (dried coconut) with solvents.

Solvent extracted is much less expensive, but I like coconut oil

extracted from fresh coconut with low or no heat. I'd love to get

butter from unpasteuirized milk, but I make do with butter from cows

who have access to open pasture.

 

Alobar

 

On 5/22/07, Tina <mommyon731 wrote:

> I've been told not to cook with extra-virgin olive oil, but this

> article says that it's safe.? It also says it's safe to cook with

> walnut and almond oil. I like to cook with coconut oil as well. Does

> anyone have any other suggestions of oil to use in cooking/baking?

>

>

[Guest guest]

What are some of the best coconut oils that can be purchased at places like

Whole Foods or others, using real coconuts with no heat to extract the oil?

 

 

[Guest guest]

There are more and more coconut oils available on the market in the health

food outlets - google should give you some listed for your country - here in

Australia Melrose have a good one.

 

Jane

[Guest guest]

garden of life

 

william heene <wmheene wrote: What are some of the best

coconut oils that can be purchased at places like Whole Foods or others, using

real coconuts with no heat to extract the oil?

[Guest guest]

HI,

In response to the Canola Hoax, and a search for coconut oil with no heat to

extract the oil, I recommend that you go to the site www.tropicaltraditions.com

I buy the Expeller pressed coconut oil, not virgin, as the expeller pressed does

not have a coconut flavor. If you want to buy at Whole foods and are confused

by the labeling, just email the company and ask them if they use NO heat in the

process. On another note, I just started to purchase from

www.texasgrassfedbeef.com and the owner prefers macadamia nut oil over coconut

oil and he has quite a write up on his site as to why mac oil is better. I just

purchased some and it is quite good. The purely grassfed meats are good too and

he sells a variety of meats and nitrate free products as well as grass fed

produced cheese. Great site.

Nancy Savinelli, Naturopath

www.nsavinelli.com

 

7a.

Re: The Canola *Hoax*

Posted by: " william heene " wmheene wmheene

Thu May 24, 2007 2:54 pm (PST)

What are some of the best coconut oils that can be purchased at places like

Whole Foods or others, using real coconuts with no heat to extract the oil?

[Guest guest]

, " Tina "

<mommyon731 wrote:

>

> I've been told not to cook with extra-virgin olive oil, but this

> article says that it's safe.? It also says it's safe to cook with

> walnut and almond oil. I like to cook with coconut oil as well.

Does

> anyone have any other suggestions of oil to use in cooking/baking?

 

 

Spectrum Natural Oils have suggestions in a pdf format. I have recovered from

heart and circulatory abnormalities just following their protocol.

You may have to copy and paste the url in your browser... links, you never

know...

 

http://www.spectrumorganics.com/images/uploads/123CookingGuide_050305.p

df

 

warm regards, JoAnn

[Guest guest]

Jane

I have a Word document with a the names,urls etc of a dozen or so

'good' kinds of coconut oil. It also includes prices and when a company carries

more then one coconut oil, says which are the best one to use. It ws compiled by

the members of a candida group - coconut oil was part of the recommended food

plan to get rid of candida. I don't think there are any on it for Australia

though - could you please send me info about the one you are thinking about

here?

blessings

Shan

PS anyone whom would like this list, email me at surpriseshan2

 

Re: The Canola *Hoax*

 

Posted by: " Jane MacRoss " highfield1   janemacross

 

Fri May 25, 2007 7:13 am (PST) There are more and more coconut oils available

on the market in the health

food outlets - google should give you some listed for your country - here in

Australia Melrose have a good one.