Is Vegetable Oil Good Or Bad For You?

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and Rupa Health. Many
of us grew up with the message that vegetable oils are safe to use
as a heart-healthy alternative over traditional saturated fats.
Found at your typical grocery store, these clear, tasteless, and
highly refined and processed oils include corn, soybean, canola,
safflower, and sunflower oils. These highly unstable, highly
inflammatory oils were given a gigantic push by advisory groups we
trusted, including the American Heart Association, the National
Education Cholesterol Program, the National Institutes of
Health—and even our government’s own dietary guidelines. It turns
out the truth about oils is not so clear cut. In today’s episode of
my series I’m calling Health Bites, I talk all about seed oils, why
they shouldn’t be a part of your diet, and the type of fat and oils
you should consume instead for optimal health.  This episode
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details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber
version): What’s the difference between saturated and unsaturated
fats? (3:57 / 1:40) Should we cut out all vegetable and seed oils?
(6:04 / 4:20)  The connection between saturated fat and
cholesterol (8:20 / 6:20)  The importance of
omega-6-to-omega-3 ratios (10:18 / 8:30)  Oils I generally
recommend avoiding (13:41 / 12:20)  Saturated fats I generally
recommend eating (14:38 / 12:40)  My favorite fats and oils
(17:57 / 15:55)  Mentioned in this episode Eat Fat, Get Thin
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