Modern Vegetable Oils and why they are killing us.....

There is a movement stirring to go back to a time when modern man made oils and fats weren't in everything (hello soybean oil), where eating meat was okay, and when your ingredient lists were actually words you could say and spell. Where eggs weren't the size of baseballs, meats didn't turn brown so quickly, and you never heard the words "meat glue."

This movement is a grassroots push to eat simple and nutritious. Fake is out and real is in. Real food. Real dairy and meats, whole saturated fats, and less GMO's.

One of the best food blogger voices for this movement is found at The Food Renegade. Her recent post on the dangers of modern vegetable oils, and the video that accompanies it only mirrors the concerns of millions of Americans. Richard Morris' recent book A Life Unburndened highlights how real the dangers of processed foods are and how healing eating real foods can be.

Not everyone is on the bandwagon yet, but the trend is growing. Farmers markets and co-ops are springing up everywhere. Even in my large metropolitan area there is a real dairy farm (with no added hormones, antibiotics, or even crowded stalls) not far from me. There's a co-op thirty minutes or so from me that carries fresh eggs, milk, and produce from a local Mennonite farm and there's a few restaurants nearby that focus on fresh, local food.

Since the 1970's, though deaths by heart attacks are down (due to quick response time and better healthcare), the incidence of heart disease and obesity is only rising. And yet the consumption of whole saturated fats has dropped! What does that tell us?

What we are doing isn't working.

We're getting fatter, sicker, and unhappier, and it seems like man made vegetable oils aren't solving anything.

So what do we do?

We try something else. Thus this movement back to real food, real sustenance, and real nutrition.

This is also the reason I try to be gluten-free. I'm not a celiac, I just believe that our wheat (which is actually genetically modified) isn't healthy. Plus white flour has no real nutritional value or fiber and is shown to slow down digestion.

Part of why I started this blog is to try out this theory that real is good and fake is bad. After a few diagnoses like Diabetes Type II and PCOS and after being on many medications that seemed to only make me worse, I've decided to try nutritional healing.

What we are doing isn't working. I'm game to try something else now. Are you?