For your health, that is:
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s disease, anxiety, and depression.
Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible oil in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In all likelihood, it is not healthy for humans.
Credit: USDA
It certainly is not good for mice. The new study, published this month in the journal Endocrinology, compared mice fed three different diets high in fat: soybean oil, soybean oil modified to be low in linoleic acid, and coconut oil.
The same UC Riverside research team found in 2015 that soybean oil induces obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and fatty liver in mice. Then in a 2017 study, the same group learned that if soybean oil is engineered to be low in linoleic acid, it induces less obesity and insulin resistance.
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What? No way!
Soybean oil also makes you a wimp, as I said in a recent interview (which irritated at least one person).
I have no idea what is going on with the water supply or who knows what, but soy is good enough to blame for now.
There are better oils out there.
Real lard, home-rendered beef tallow, virgin coconut oil, good olive oil, bacon fat, etc.
Stay away from the soy! Make your own mayo, make your own salad dressings, and read all the labels.
I would also skip cottonseed oil, canola oil, “vegetable oil,” and anything hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated. It’s garbage.
You can have greener thumbs by this weekend!
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Indeed. Poison. We use butter, bacon drippings and real olive oil exclusively and it has made a huge improvement in health and flavor. Imagine feeding layers soy, which acts like estrogen and then eating those eggs. No thanks. Keep up the good work David.
I switched my chickens from soy-based to soy-free feed. I think it helps.
The chicken poop isn’t as stinky either…
I looked at lard at the store but it was hydrogenated so that was a no go. But we have lots of bacon grease, so no biggie there.
I just avoid all oils these days.
Thanks for posting the article, where are you buying your non-GMO non soy feed?
Bay Minette Feed and Seed
Check your area for a feed store or co-op. That’s the best place to find feed. Big box stores are more expensive with less selection.
Thanks brother. Finding real olive oil can also be a chore; I seem to remember a university study from several years back hat concluded 80% or so of all imported “extra virgin olive oil” was adulterated with fillers, petroleum, you name it. The research group doubted their results so they re-ran the study — with even WORSE results.
There was an olive oil producer by us in Live Oak, FL but they went out of business. Georgia Olive Orchards in Quitman offer a US-grown product as an alternative to imported.
We also like to use pecan oil, since it’s a high-temp oil. We buy ours from an outfit in Louisiana (Kinloch Farm).
But you just can’t beat bacon grease huh.
Autism isn’t a neurological condition any more than having brown hair instead of blonde. But I’m guessing research on that doesn’t confirm your preexisting beliefs are repulsive to you, so I’m sure you’re still using the Medical model of autism and think all autistic people are “damaged” by vaccines or something. Just that statement out me off from your blog, but by the time I was done reading this, I’m off to find someone a bit less.. cosmic.
Autism can be a gift.
It’s a different brain wiring. A friend’s daughter has a “bad” version that makes her really sensitive to people and she ignores normal stimuli; however, multiple friends of mine with genius IQ are definitely high on the scale.
Also, note that I didn’t write anything about autism in my post. That was the study I was quoting, and they listed it as a potential side effect of soybean oil consumption, which may or may not be true.
100% agree with you. The only plant-derived oils I use are olive, avocado, and coconut, and occasionally a bit of sesame oil if I’m cooking Asian style but I think that’s probably not great for you either. Probably the oil that separates from peanut butter is ok, too, as long as you don’t cook it. Any other vegetable- or seed- or bean-based oils are awful for you. And hydrogenated oils are even worse.
My rule of thumb is, try to eat as much like an Amish person as possible. If I could grow it myself (assuming appropriate climate conditions) and process it in my own kitchen, then it’s probably ok to eat (or at least that’s the first filter it has to pass through on its way to the kitchen). Anything that requires industrial-scale processing, high-powered machines or chemistry labs to produce is probably going to do some damage to your health, and should be avoided.
Incidentally, I was just reading yesterday that the Amish have no autism and none of the chronic illnesses that modern western society suffers from. They also don’t vaccinate and eat only real foods that they produce themselves. Things that make you go “hmmm….”
well to be fair the amish are all kind of autistic
That is funny.
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