On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:21:07 -0700, David Karas <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Ken Stuart wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 16:40:25 -0400, matesz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >For overall health, as well as to reduce inflammatory
>> >the body, among reactions in the body, one needs to cut out all
>> >margarine, shortening, refined and generic vegetable oils, oils sold in
>> >clear bottles (which oxidize due to exposure to light as well as
>> >through the high heat processing they underog), commercial salad
>> >dressings, canola oil, and any product which contains hydrogenated,
>> >partially hydrogenated oils.
>>
>> Canola oil does not need to be on that list - it is an alternative
>> medicine myth that there is anything wrong with it, at least any more
>> than the other cooking oils.   And, since it has a high percentage of
>> monounsaturated fat, then there would be much less trans fatty acid
>> content even if it were not well treated.
>
>I don't cosider canola oil safe. It is a genetically engineered food. I do not
>want to be a test subject for something that is not a human food in its natural
>state. I have seen articles discussing the dangers of canola oil. If I can find
>them I will post more info. Where did you get the idea that this was a
>alternative medicine myth?

I posted this to this list on 12-1-99, but here it is again:

Anyone who is interested in a formal rebuttal to all the various urban legends
about canola oil [such as that it is "genetically engineered"], should e-mail me
and I'll send them an article I have by a product engineer at a natural oils
company (it is 40kbytes).

I won't post it here, since I detest when people post long articles to
discussion lists...


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Cheers,

Ken
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