This wasn't always the case.
It makes it easy to wonder if there's a connection between that fact and the types of diseases, particularly auto immune and inflammatory diseases, that occur in the population.
This wasn't always the case.
It makes it easy to wonder if there's a connection between that fact and the types of diseases, particularly auto immune and inflammatory diseases, that occur in the population.
If one is going to make sweeping generalisations based on cross sectional data, you have to be open to all the sweeping generalisations.
So is it also easy to wonder if there’s a connection between high canola consumption and the fact we’re living longer than ever?
This is an extremely studied question.
I tried to get my parents to switch from canola—universally used in India and Bangladesh these days—to time-tested mustard oil, and they were like “mhmm.” :-/
The story is a lot more interesting than I could have imagined:
https://sites.bu.edu/gastronomyblog/2022/05/18/the-marvelous... https://www.andersonintl.com/the-controversy-surrounding-mus...Still digging for the brand
That's ironic, because rapeseed and mustard seed oils are about as closely related as any two food oils can be.
Other than the genetic engineering and solvent-based extraction of canola oil. But yes, that was my parents reaction as well. Regardless, it’s just butter, ghee, and sometimes olive or avocado oil at my house. Because food and cleanliness taboos are sub-scientific.
Totally agree with you. I do not understand how this viewpoint upsets people.
I don’t think people eating butter instead of canola oil is what upsets people.
It’s people ignoring the mountain of evidence that such a switch would be a backwards step for health outcomes and claiming the opposite because they read a book by the usual rogues’ gallery of science misinterpreters (Taubes, Teicholz, Shanahan).
ant-seed oil is anti-scientific and prays on people being ignorant about the research on health outcomes and relies on emotional appeals and appeals to nature such as "the genetic engineering and solvent-based extraction of canola oil".
Calling the rejection of a novel highly processed food replacement like this anti-scientific is comically illogical.
Who are you trying to kid? You listed sunflower seed oil alongside canola --- you're presumably just as opposed to mustard seed oil.
It would be funny if the one seed oil you're OK with is mustard seed oil, the oil closest in composition to canola, the one oil anyone has a legit gripe about (it doesn't taste very good).
I don't know what time-tested means but mustard oil is banned in EU/US for edible uses due to high erucic acid. So you parents were right!
Seams not all mustard oil is Banned in the EU.
I've got a bottle of Uncle Roy's cold pressed extra virgin "spicy" mustard seed oil at my local Spar.
The label reads "erucic acid free", so I'm guessing they somehow remove it?
It even has the awful pun of "The healthy Oilternative".
I understand they also remove (most of?) it from Canola Oil.
Thanks for letting me know, I'll try to get my hands on it.
Mustard oil has been used in the subcontinent since the Indus valley civilization 4,500 years ago. It’s extremely well understood. Unlike solvent extraction of oil.
You write this as if there isn't controversy about mustard oil, which is banned in the United States because it contains high levels of a likely heart toxin ("Among South Asians living in the US, ASCVD risk is four-fold higher than the local population") and limited throughout Europe. The entire point of solvent extraction is convert rapeseed oil, which would otherwise be similarly problematic (they're basically the same plant!) into something less toxic than mustard oil (that's literally why it's called "canola").
I don't care either way; let the mustard oil flow. I don't buy the mustard oil thing either. Just don't pretend that mustard oil is somehow healthier than canola. Use whichever fat tastes best to you.
Canola oil is simply a mustard-seed oil from a hybrid mustard bred for low erucic acid content. Solvent extraction is widely used, but not something that defines canola oil. Cold-pressed and expeller-pressed canola oil are also produced on a smaller scale.
No, in populations which traditionally use mustard oil heart problems are common. So it's time tested to cause heart failure.
Is that true in a meaningful way? Bangladesh’s life expectancy at 65 is higher than richer countries like China, Vietnam, and Jordan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Asian_countries_by_lif...
Then it's results would be easy to summarize. Yet, I'm finding no such simple summary, nor good agreement between studies. It's not like this is a multi billion dollar a year industry so that's a very confusing outcome. /s
> This wasn't always the case.
This is pretty vague. Similarly ~50 years ago, people were not eating as much meat as they do today.
This is the sort of “logic” that people like RFK Jr. use. What’s the evidence for the connection you’re trying to make?