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This is the worst advice possible. Cooking oil should be highly unsaturated as it's healthier. Saturated fats are bad. If it's solid at room temperature, it's bad.FunFun said:
Healthiest cooking oil?
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statdoc said:
You are totally wrong. Did you actually read my reply?
You don't heat up highly unsaturated oils for the reason that they are very heat sensitive and break down immediately leaving toxic chemicals. The bonds break at the unsaturated carbon bonds and atach to oxygen atoms.
Highly saturated oils do not break down when heated because they don't have unsaturated bonds which attach to oxygen, therefore they do not form toxic chemicals in your frying pan (unless of course you apply too much heat). The more solid the fat at room temperature, the more stable that oil is in your frying pan.
Study some organic chemistry. Unsaturated bonds are extremely sensitive to oxygen, heat and light.
Highly unsaturated fats are only healthy when consumed refrigerated or at room temperature.
Why do you think that flax seed oil (one of the most unsaturated oils) is kept in the refrigerator in a dark container at health shops? To be a good quality oil it even has to be prepared by cold-pressing to keep it away from heat.
FunFun said:
I did. You might be surprised at my undergraduate credentials.
People read way too many quack websites.
The Mediterranean people have been cooking with heated oils for many years, and none of them have experienced adverse health problems. In fact, they have better health and life expectancy than we do here in North America.
statdoc said:
My information does not come from websites at all. It's basic organic chemistry.
If you don't understand the results of heating unsaturated oils then it's true, I would be extremely surprised you have any credentials.
That's a pretty broad statement about Mediterranean people cooking with heated oils isn't it? Of course people cook by heated oils. The question is which oils are healthiest to cook with. Note the title to this thread.
How could you possibly draw the conclusion that Mediterranean people are healthier because they cook with heated oil....that's an absurd statement. There are thousands of contributing factors to a population's health. Japanese have the highest life expectancy in the world...maybe that's due to consumption of uncooked unsaturated oils in sushi? I suppose you didn't even think to consider that mediterranean people consume a lot of unheated olive oil.
Let me give you a clue. The easier an oil burns in a frying pan, the more unsaturated (read unstable) that oil is, and the more toxic it will be when used in food preparation.
I give up. Thanks for playing.
Quote me a peer-reviewed, scientific journal and I would believe it. Don't quote quack websites and expect someone trained in science (chemistry actually!) and medicine to believe it.shogun7 said:
It's one thing to say that something is oxidized, but it's another to say that it's harmful to you. Without clinical trials, I just discredit this crap.
By the way, there are clinical trials that show that diets high in saturated fats increase your risk of cardiovascular disease. That's contrary to what the quack website states.
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statdoc said:
Right, because scientific journals or peer reviews in no way could be wrong or have a vested interest? Could they not be bought and paid for, research that dictactes whatever corporation want's a specific supplement or food item to be promoted as healthy? From my understanding there's a huge revolving door between government, the medical establishment/big pharma, and agriculture that rakes in billions.
They must be quack websites because they are in disagree with journals and popular opinion, eh? This reminds me of the three stages of truth. But whatever, this was my opinion and I'm not showcasing it as fact. At the end of the day you're going to believe what you want, I was just trying to bring a different perspective to the table and ridicule is always accompanied by something that's different and not part of the norm.
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