The DIRTY Truth about Canola Oil

Posted on 19. May, 2013 by Howard Salus in featured, Florida News, Healthy Foods

From truthaboutabs.com

Have you been lied to about the health benefits of canola oil?

by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist Author of best-sellers:  The Truth About Six Pack Abs & The Top 101 Foods that FIGHT Aging

If you’ve been following my fitness newsletters for some time, you may have noticed that I NEVER include canola oil in any of my recipes or any of my lists of healthy foods.

Many people have asked me why, because all they hear in the mainstream media is that canola oil is “heart healthy” and a good source of monounsaturated fats similar to olive oil.

Well, first of all, you need to realize that much of what you hear in the mainstream media has been influenced by heavy handed marketing tactics by big food companies.  Canola oil is cheap for them to produce so they want to fool you into thinking it’s a “health oil” so that people, restaurants, etc will buy it up as their main oil of choice.

The dirty truth about canola oil

Yes, it’s true that canola oil is high in monounsaturates, but let me explain why canola oil is anything but “healthy”.

Canola oil is made from something called rapeseed. Rapeseed actually had to be bred over the years to reduce the percentage of a problematic component of rapeseed, which is erucic acid.

Important note on canola oil “urban legends”:  There is a problem with most websites that DEFEND canola oil, saying that internet “urban legends” on the dangers of canola oil are unfounded.  The problem is that these websites that defend canola oil ONLY talk about the issue of erucic acid.  The issue of erucic acid IS an urban legend, because erucic acid has been bred out to very low levels over the years, so it is a non-issue.

However, these websites that defend canola oil are barking up the wrong tree because they don’t address the issue of the processing of canola oil and oxidation of the polyunsaturated component of canola oil, which is what makes it unhealthy for human consumption.  THAT’S the real issue that they either don’t understand (because they are not nutrition experts) or are simply ignoring.

Let’s look at the REAL issues with canola oil:

Canola oil typically ranges between 55-65% monounsaturated fat and between 28-35% polyunsaturated fat, with just a small amount of saturated fat.

While we’ve been led to believe that high monounsaturated fat oils are good for us (which they are in the case of virgin olive oil or from unprocessed nuts or seeds), the fact is that canola oil has more detriments than it does benefits.

As you may have heard me talk about in other newsletters or in my Truth about Six Pack Abs program… one of the biggest problems with highly processed and refined vegetable oils such as corn oil, soybean oil, and yes, even canola oil, is that the polyunsaturated component of the oil is highly unstable under heat, light, and pressure, and this heavily oxidizes the polyunsaturates which increases free radicals in your body.

The end result of all of this refining and processing are oils that are highly inflammatory in your body when you ingest them, potentially contributing to heart disease, weight gain, and other degenerative diseases.

The reason that extra virgin olive oil is good for you is that it is cold pressed without the use of heat and solvents to aid extraction. EVOO also contains important antioxidants that help protect the stability of the oil.

Canola oil, on the other hand, is typically extracted and refined using high heat, pressure, and petroleum solvents such as hexane. Most canola oil undergoes a process of caustic refining, degumming, bleaching, and deoderization, all using high heat and questionable chemicals.

Does canola even have trans fats?

Even worse, all of this high heat, high pressure processing with solvents actually forces some of the omega-3 content of canola oil to be transformed into trans fats.

According to Dr. Mary Enig, PhD, and Nutritional Biochemist, “Although the Canadian government lists the trans fat content of canola at a minimal 0.2 percent, research at the University of Florida at Gainesville, found trans fat levels as high as 4.6 percent in commercial liquid canola oil”.

And this is the crap that they are marketing to you as a “healthy oil”!

As you can see from the details above on how canola oil is processed, it is barely any healthier for you than other junk oils like soybean oil or corn oil.  The bottom line is that it is an inflammatory oil in your body and should be avoided as much as possible.

The only canola oil that might be reasonable is if you see that it is “cold pressed” and organic. Most canola oil is NOT cold pressed or organic, so you might as well choose oils that you know are healthier.

Your best bets are these truly healthy oils:

• extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) - for lower temperature cooking or used as a healthy salad dressing oil
• Udo’s Choice Oil Blend – NEVER use this for cooking as it has a higher polyunsaturated fat content (therefore heat destroys the benefits of this oil, and increases it’s inflammatory properties), but it is a cold processed blend of healthy oils that mixes well with olive oil for salad dressings.
• Virgin coconut oil – great for all temperatures of cooking due to its super high stability under heat.  A great source of healthy saturated fats in the form of medium chain triglycerides (MCTs), one of which is Lauric Acid, which helps support the immune system and is lacking in most western diets.
• Organic grass-fed butter – I like to use a mix of grass-fed butter, coconut oil, and a small bit of olive oil for most of my cooking. Grass-fed butter is a great source of the healthy fat, CLA, which has even been shown in studies to have muscle building and fat burning properties.  Grass-fed butter also has a much healthier omega-6 to omega-3 ratio than standard butter at your grocery store.  Kerrygold Irish butter is my favorite grass-fed butter.

So don’t be fooled by food labels claiming that they contain “healthy canola oil”… as you can see, this couldn’t be further from the truth!  Choose some of the healthier options above and your body will thank you!

By the way… Are you eating these unique power-foods that FIGHT aging in your body, normalize blood pressure, improve brain function, and even help BOOST your metabolism?

Nutritional supplements prove better than toxic drugs….GlaxoSmith Klein..fraud

Posted on 09. Jul, 2012 by Howard Salus in Business, Education, featured, Florida News, Healthy Foods, Healthy Products, Products

Rodi Alexander

“Once upon a time….drug companies promoted drugs to treat disease. Now it’s often the opposite, they promote disease to fit their drugs”.

Interesting articles. It’s great to stay informed.

The best of health, Rodi.

naturalnews.com printable article Originally published July 4 2012

Nutritional supplements prove better than toxic drugs

by Jonathan Landsman

(NaturalNews) Do you know anyone that believes in poisoning the body to “get well”? The sad truth is that most ill-informed people think that un-natural medicine is the only way to solve health problems. By brainwashing doctors (in medical school); controlling politicians (with lobbying efforts) and “social conditioning” (through T.V. ads) – the pharmaceutical drug cartel has created a system of sick care that profits shareholders and promotes dis-ease. (“insider” proof below – keep reading)

Marcia Angell, M.D., the first female editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, once said this about the pharmaceutical industry:

“Once upon a time…Drug companies promoted drugs to treat disease. Now it is often just the opposite, they promote disease to fit their drugs.”

Don’t become a victim of conventional (narrow-minded) medicine. The medical literature is filled with highly-effective, natural ways to prevent – even treat – disease without harmful side effects. The next NaturalNews Talk Hour will reveal specific examples about how nutritional supplements are BETTER than toxic drugs!
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The reason why modern “healthcare” is broken

Dr. Angell, says it all about how controlling (and corrupt) the pharmaceutical industry has become. Remember, Dr. Angell worked as the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine for over 20 years! In other words – she knows how the system works…

“This industry uses its wealth and power to co-op every institution that might stand in its way, including the U.S. Congress, the Food and Drug Administration, Academic Medical Centers, and the medical profession itself.” – Marcia Angell

Eliminating disease is easier than you think

Clearly, natural medicine provides a better way to prevent, even reverse many of the illnesses we experience today, such as, migraines, high blood pressure, arthritis, obesity – the list goes on and on. Avoiding processed foods with harmful ingredients, detoxifying the body (naturally) of unwanted chemicals and supplementing your diet with food-based vitamins and minerals will dramatically reduce your dependency on drugs and the “modern” sick care system.

In the United States alone, over-the-counter and prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death and some would argue it’s even worse. When was the last time you heard about a friend or family member getting hurt by taking Vitamin D to boost immunity or essential fatty acids for a healthy heart and brain? For best results – always take a natural approach.

The NaturalNews Talk Hour begins this Thursday evening at 6pm Pacific / 9pm Eastern, and registration is FREE. Click this link – http://www.naturalhealth365.com/ and enter your email for FREE show details + a FREE gift!

This week’s guest: Michael Murray, N.D. – a leading authority on natural medicine

Discover the healing power of Vitamins, Minerals, and other supplements – Thu. July 5

Dr. Michael Murray is a graduate, faculty member, and serves on the Board of Regents of Bastyr University. He is co-author of “A Textbook of Natural Medicine“, the definitive textbook on naturopathic medicine for physicians, as well as the consumer version – the “Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine“.

For nearly thirty years, Dr. Murray has been compiling a massive data-base of original scientific studies from the medical literature. He has personally collected over 70,000 articles from the scientific literature which provide strong evidence on the effectiveness of diet, vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other natural measures in the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease.

Don’t become a victim of conventional (narrow-minded) medicine. The medical literature is filled with highly-effective, natural ways to prevent – even treat – disease without harmful side effects. The next NaturalNews Talk Hour will reveal specific examples about how nutritional supplements are BETTER than toxic drugs!

naturalnews.com printable article

Originally published July 4 2012

GlaxoSmithKline admits to criminal pharma fraud in 3 billion dollar case

by D Holt

(NaturalNews) British registered company, GlaxoSmithKline, faces $3 billion in penalties after pleading guilty to the biggest health care fraud case in history. GSK admitted that physicians had been bribed to push potentially dangerous drugs in exchange for Madonna tickets, Hawaiian holidays, cash and lucrative speaking tours. They also admitted distributing misleading information regarding the antidepressant Paxil. The report claimed that it was suitable for children, but failed to acknowledge data from studies proving its ineffectiveness in children and adolescents.

GSK faced charges that they had used the gifts to sell three drugs that were either unsafe, or used for purposes that were not approved. The first drug, Paxil also known as Seroxat, was touted as safe and effective for children and adolescents. The ineffectiveness of Paxil, and the link to suicides, meant that it was banned for kids under 18-years-olds in 2008.

The second drug, Avandia was used in Britain to treat diabetes until it was withdrawn due to safety fears, including increased risk of heart attacks. The US government claimed that GSK had attempted to conceal the data surrounding the dangers.

The third drug, Wellbrutin is used in the UK for treating depression, but it was alleged that GSK had recommended physicians used it for ADHD, lost libido and as a slimming aid. None of which were approved uses for the drug.

The moral code of Big Pharma companies exposed

Sir Andrew Witty, chief executive of GSK said “Whilst these offenses originate in a different era for the company, they cannot and will not be ignored. On behalf of GSK, I want to express our regret and reiterate that we have learned from the mistakes that were made. We are deeply committed to doing everything we can to live up to and exceed the expectations of those we work with and serve. In the US, we have taken action at all levels in the company. We have fundamentally changed our procedures for compliance, marketing and selling.”

US attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz said: “The GSK sales force bribed physicians to prescribe GSK products using every imaginable form of high priced entertainment, from Hawaiian vacations to paying doctors millions of dollars to go on speaking tours, to a European pheasant hunt, to tickets to Madonna concerts.”

This is the biggest settlement in the history of drug industries, ahead of the 2009 Pfizer case in which it was fined $2.2 billion for promoting four drugs for unapproved uses. In 2010, GSK paid $96 million to a whistle-blower who exposed contamination problems and a management cover up in Puerto Rico.

The practice of pushing drugs for unapproved uses is endemic within the drug industries. Two of the largest drug companies have been caught and fined huge amounts for chasing sales targets using any means necessary. It proves that the health of customers, even children, ranks lower on the companies’ agenda than profit. Using bribes to get doctors to prescribe drugs shows a complete lack of moral fiber from both sales teams and the doctors. After this case, surely the doctors also need to face the courts for their conduct.

Whilst the amounts of money seem to be a huge punishment for GSK, the settlement is merely a slap on the wrist for a company whose market value is $133 billion. Can we trust another multinational that promises to clean up its act, when others have promised the same, only to behave just as recklessly but much more surreptitiously.

Sources for this article include:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/business/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-pay-3-billion-in-fraud-settlement.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57464923-10391704/glaxosmithkline-agrees-to-$3-billion-settlement-with-justice-department-in-largest-sum-of-its-kind-over-health-care-fraud/
http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/02/12525279-glaxosmithkline-settles-fraud-case-for-3-billion?lite

About the author:
D Holt is currently involved in research in the UK into the mechanisms involved in healing due to meditation, hypnosis and other ”spiritual” healers and techniques. Previous work has included investigations into effects of meditation on addiction, the effects of sulfites on the digestive system and the use of tartrazine and other additives in the restaurant industry. new blog is now available at http://tinyurl.com/sacredmeditation or follow on twitter @sacredmeditate
D Holt is currently involved in research in the UK into the mechanisms involved in healing due to meditation, hypnosis and other ”spiritual” healers and techniques. Previous work has included investigations into effects of meditation on addiction, the effects of sulfites on the digestive system and the use of tartrazine and other additives in the restaurant industry. new blog is now available at http://tinyurl.com/sacredmeditation or follow on twitter @sacredmeditate

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Aspartame Side Effects

Posted on 28. Mar, 2012 by Howard Salus in Education, featured, Florida News, Healthy Foods, Products

Rodi Alexander Friedman

So many people think that using artificial sweetener is a better choice than real sugar, when in fact it is causing brain damage, blurred vision, cancer, weight gain and a slew of neurological problems.  Hope I now have your attention.
It is NOT an alternative for diabetics! It causes kidney failure! My father in law was diabetic and died of kidney failure.
Don’t wait, Pass this on to people you care about!

The link between aspartame and brain
tumors: What the FDA never told you about artificial sweeteners

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More side effects revealed.

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GMOs

Posted on 12. Mar, 2012 by Howard Salus in Education, featured, Florida News, Healthy Foods, Opinions, Products

Printed with permission of www.naturalnews.com

Thanks to Rodi Alexander for passing this on to us.

If the biotech industry is so proud of GMOs, why don’t they tout GMOs on food packaging labels?

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

Genetically engineered foods will “feed the world,” say Bill Gates and all the rest of the GMO pushers. GM crops are the result of “high-tech agriculture” and “advanced technology” created
by super-smart agricultural geniuses who only enhance the properties of food crops. GMOs are better than God, better than Mother Nature, and one of the great gifts of science to humankind — sort of like electricity, only more edible.
If this is all true, then why doesn’t the GMO industry want credit for all this effort on food labels? Shouldn’t the industry leap at the opportunity to have foods labeled with things like:
• Fortified with extra GMOs!
• Genetically Modified to grow strong bones!
• Now with GMO technology in every delicious bite!
If GMOs are so wonderful, in other words, then why wouldn’t the industry tout all its amazing technology right on the labels of the foods containing GMOs?

The reality? GMOs are poison

But no, instead of the industry begging for regulatory permission to place GMO bragging rights on food labels, the industry has done exactly the opposite: It has demanded that consumers be kept in the dark about GMOs!
• They don’t want consumers to even know they’re eating GMOs!
• They believe consumer ignorance is preferable to consumer choice.
• They want consumers kept in the dark, uninformed and unable to avoid GMOs.
The GMO industry, in fact, is already viciously fighting a proposed GMO labeling mandate in California — a law that would merely require foods to be truthfully labeled when they contain genetically modified ingredients. What could be wrong with that? But in an age when consumers want to know more information about what they’re buying, not less, the GMO industry somehow believes consumer ignorance is victory!
So when GMO pushers like Bill Gates say they want to “feed the world,” what they really mean is they want to secretly force-feed the world mystery ingredients that are not listed on the labels so that consumers won’t even be aware of what they’re eating. (Such as the deadly
insecticide found in every kernel of GM corn…)

Commonsense food rule: Beware of anything the food companies don’t want to put on the label

If the ag giants and food companies don’t want to put something on a food label,
that’s a pretty strong sign that you probably shouldn’t eat it. If it was good for you, they would obviously want to brag about it on the label. All natural! Fortified with minerals! Low in sodium!
So how come the industry doesn’t want to claim, “High in GMOs!” on every food box?

Want some flaked corn breakfast cereal? It’s on sale for $1.99 a box, and it’s high
in GMOs!
How about some corn tortillas for your Mexican fiesta dinner? Those corn
tortillas are fortified with extra GMOs, too!
Thirsty? Grab yourself a 12-pack of that famous brand sports drink –
it’s sweetened with genetically modified corn syrup! Plus, it’s got electrolytes!
Or how about a super-sized box of Genetically Modified Corn Flakes for
breakfast? You can even eat it with a bowl of pasteurized, homogenized, Bovine
Growth Hormone-contaminated, pus-filled factory-processed cow’s milk! Yumm!
But you don’t see any of this marketing material at the grocery store, do you?
GMOs remain the dirty little secret of the food industry — even at places like Whole Foods, which sort of try to imply they’re against GMOs, but then they turn around and sell all sorts of GM foods anyway.

GMOs are worse than skeletons in the closet

GMOs are to the food industry what gay public toilet sex is to a pro-family
Republican candidate. Or hidden camera photos of the naked choir boys and the
Catholic priest. GMOs are the bones buried under the basement slab of a mass
murderer who’s also running for Governor. They’re the prostitution ring records
that reveal one very busy repeat customer named “Eliot Spitzer.”
GMOs are the leaked Stratfor emails that reveal the U.S. is already on the
ground working to destroy Syria’s infrastructure. GMOs are the proof of
election fraud in a so-called “free nation.” GMOs are not just Big
Ag’s skeletons in the closet; they are the skeletons in a closet full of
beaten, gagged children who have been kidnapped by CPS officials and sold into
“white slavery” to the local community’s business leaders who run the
children’s foundations.
GMOs are the dirty food secret that’s so dirty, virtually no one would buy
any food known to contain GMOs. They are worse than the plague. They are anti-food.
Labeling foods with GMOs is essentially the same as slapping a large skull and
crossbones on the package, and that’s exactly why the death-worshipping,
profit-sucking corporate whores who work for the biotech industry are fighting
so hard to prevent GMO labels from appearing on foods. “Holy crap! We
can’t have consumers knowing the TRUTH, can we?”
Isn’t it fascinating that the GMO industry depends entirely on hiding its
products in order to stay in business? What other industry is so steeped in
destructive, hateful products that it has to actively seek to HIDE THEM from
consumers? Biotech is an industry whose products are sold entirely through trickery
and deceit, not honest labeling and full disclosure.

Why we will win this fight for the right to know what we are eating

But make no mistake, my friends, for the People shall be victorious against this
insidious brand of agricultural imperialism. As I publicly shared just
the other day, I had a vision (or was it a dream?) of a massive army of
American farmers and consumers who marched on Monsanto, arrested all its
employees and burned its buildings to the ground.
I believe that day may very well come true in the near future, and I can only
hope it will be followed by a series of very public trials where the GMO
scientists, corporate CEOs and top marketing executives are all charged with crimes
against humanity and tried by a jury of their peers. The genetic modification of seeds and the open planting of those seeds in the natural world should, I believe, be a crime against nature met by a most severe punishment such as life in prison for anyone found guilty of those crimes in a Constitutional court that abides by due process. Almost no punishment is too great against these criminals, because those who sow genetically modified seeds upon our natural world risk the death of billions of people in their
careless arrogance. Some might even argue that the death sentence would be
justifiable in such cases.

“Mystery” food?

Just remember: the next time you go shopping at the grocery store, take a closer
look at the label of a food product and ask yourself, “What are they NOT
telling me about what’s in this product?”
Because much of the time, you’re actually buying “mystery food”
containing all sorts of toxins, poisons or horrifying ingredients that are
never listed on the label (by design, of course).
And that’s the way Big Ag and Big Food like it — keep consumers in the
dark! The less they know about how processed food is made, where it comes
from and what it contains, the better! And the more ignorant consumers
can be kept, the more GMOs the biotech industry can shove down their gullible
little throats.

Learn more:

Support the GMO mandatory labeling petition in California!

http://www.labelgmos.org/
Organic Consumers Association:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/
Institute for Responsible Technology:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/

Coconut Oil – Please Don’t Miss This

Posted on 05. Feb, 2012 by Howard Salus in featured, Florida News, Healthy Foods

Thanks, Rodi Alexander for bringing this to our attention:
This is nature at it’s best!! Don’t miss this news clip, it will only take 5 minutes and the information will stay with you forever.
There is a terible misconception about coconut oil. People think that it causes high cholesterol. It does NOT!!! It raises HDL, the good cholesterol. Big difference!

Coconut oil is also the best oil to cook in because it doesn’t turn to trans-fat when cooked on a high temperature.

Watch how it helped a man with Alzheimer’s.

Have a Great day!

Rodi

A must WATCH!