Contents:
- Medical Video: 🌽 Vegetable Oils Cause Cancer, Disease, Body Fat & Inflammation - by Dr Sam Robbins
- Why can vegetable oil be harmful to the body?
- Vegetable oils contain omega-6 in large quantities
- Vegetable oil contains trans fat
- Dangerous vegetable oil if inhaled
Medical Video: 🌽 Vegetable Oils Cause Cancer, Disease, Body Fat & Inflammation - by Dr Sam Robbins
The prestige of vegetable oil aka cooking oil has long been known to be bad for health. Cooking oil is easily oxidized when exposed to high temperatures. When it enters the body, oil residues will form free radicals and harmful compounds that undermine your health from within. But apparently, the danger of cooking oil does not stop there. Check out more below.
Why can vegetable oil be harmful to the body?
Whether or not healthy vegetable oil for health depends on the type and amount of fat contained in it. Some types of cooking oil have very high levels of saturated fat, even exceeding the source of saturated fat in red meat.
Here are a number of reasons why vegetable oil can harm your health.
Vegetable oils contain omega-6 in large quantities
Vegetable oil is the largest source of linoleic acid compared to other types of food. Linoleic acid is a type of omega-6 fatty acid which, when consumed in excessive amounts, can increase the risk of various health problems.
Both omega-3 and omega-6 both produce eicosanoids, but are different in nature. Eicosanoids produced by omega-6 trigger inflammation, while those produced by omega-3s fight inflammation.
Ironically, today's modern diet tends to make people eat too much omega-6, but very little omega-3 intake. Thus, the anti-inflammatory properties of omega-3s are not strong enough to counteract the inflammatory nature of omega-6.
Increased inflammation can increase risk factors for several serious diseases, such as heart disease, joint inflammation (arthritis), depression, and even cancer. Inflammation caused by omega-6 may also damage the structure of DNA. Linoleic acid can accumulate in body fat cells, cell membranes, until absorbed into breast milk. Increased omega-6 in breast milk is associated with asthma and eczema in children.
In addition to vegetable oil, omega-6 is also contained in seed processed oils such as soybean oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, and canola oil which have been classified as healthy oils.
Vegetable oil contains trans fat
Trans fat is formed when liquid oil changes into solid fat at room temperature. This process is called partial hydrogenation which aims to prevent oil from becoming rancid quickly. But this process makes trans fat far more dangerous than saturated fat.
Saturated fats and trans fats can cause the arteries (the main blood vessels to drain blood to the heart) become blocked. If the arteries are blocked, the risk of various types of heart disease can increase, whether it's a heart attack or even a stroke.
The difference is that trans fat increases bad cholesterol and lowers good cholesterol. Saturated fat does not cause a decrease in good HDL cholesterol which is beneficial for heart health. Trans fat is also associated with an increased risk of cancer, diabetes and obesity.
If you want to reduce the health risks of trans fat, reducing packaging and fast food is not enough. You also need to reduce the use of vegetable oil for frying, or even as a salad dressing. One study found that soybean oil and canola oil contained about 0.56-4.2% toxic trans fats.
Dangerous vegetable oil if inhaled
Vegetable oil consumption is closely related to an increased risk of heart disease and cancer. This is because when the oil is heated in high temperatures it reacts to oxygen from around, which then forms the lipid aldehyde and peroxide compounds. Taking lipid aldehydes and peroxides, even in small amounts, is associated with an increased risk of heart disease and cancer.
When inhaled by the lungs, steam from aldehyde and lipid peroxide can increase the risk of lung cancer even if you are only around the kitchen when there is a cooking process using oil.
