The Poison in Your Kitchen

Until recently I thought the biggest risk to your health as insulin resistance. Now I know better. I can fix your insulin resistance in a day or two. What is much harder to correct is your vegetable fat poisoning. That’s right, the seed oils like canola, corn oil, sunflower oil, etc. that line your kitchen cabinets are slowly poisoning you. What’s even more maddening is that these oils are recommended by both the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

They reason that these are healthy oils because they lower cholesterol. What they completely ignore is that these man-made oils are unnatural and do devastating damage to every cell in your body. This is not idle speculation, this is an obvious proven fact. Check out the references below and you will never be the same. Run, do not walk, to your kitchen, and toss these oils in the hazardous waste bin where they belong.

In 1890 5% of our fat calories came from animal fat; butter, tallow, and lard. By 1986 86% of added fat came from vegetable oils. This is a complete and incredibly dramatic reversal of our fat sources. This created a dietary change never-before-seen in the history of man because these oils had never existed in the past and WE won’t exist in the future if we keep using them. These seed oils are made in big refineries and look identical to motor oil. They don’t belong in your body. It’s been calculated that the average Ameri-can consumes 80g of these oils a day, over 700 calories.

The great Weston Price foundation looked at the diets of people all over the world. Some diets had very very high carbs. Some diets had very very high fats. Neither of these diets produced significant amounts of heart disease, cancer, dementia, blindness, etc. The introduction of excess sugars, refined flour, and seed oils has been ruinous to every country where they have been introduced. These oils are pro-atherogenic, inflammatory, pro-oxidative, and demonstrably toxic. The danger of these oils is they contain excessive amounts of omega-6 oils, linoleic acid chief among them. You need tiny amounts of linoleic acid in your diet in order to make cardiolipin which is an essential component of the inner matrix of the mitochondria. Excessive linoleic acid completely distorts these membranes making the cells leaky therefore inefficient, therefore you have mitochondrial dysfunction which is at the heart of most diseases. These oils are also nutrient deficient and rats fed these oils suffer from the consequences of no vitamin A and vitamin K. Additionally animals fed the same amount of calories gained dramatically more weight when the canola oil/linoleic acid was used instead of other fats. So even when eating the same amount of calories, these animals became dramatically obese, and there is a direct correlation between obesity and Americans’ increasing consumption of these vegetable oils.

Of course, once you heat these oils as they do in every commercial application like every fast food place and every restaurant in America you produce breakdown products that are also toxic and carcinogenic. That’s right, the repeated use of these oils creates chemicals that are known carcinogens and are found in every fast food restaurant, and for that matter every restaurant in America.

If you take nothing else from this article you must immediately go to your cupboards and get rid of all of those vegetable oils. Get rid of all those commercially prepared salad dressings. Much healthier are olive oil, avocado oil, and coconut oil. Any other oil is a poison to you. Understand that every time you go out to eat you are being poisoned by these oils. I have recently taken to just getting my salads with a bunch of lemon slices which I squeeze over them. It’s not a bad dressing and I know that I’m getting healthy vegetables and not sabotaging the meal with the salad dressing. I am not sabotaging the meal, I am sabotaging my health by using these other oils. This is an easy fix; read the label, if it says any canola oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, etc. it is poison to you.

Don’t be afraid of butter. Butter is your best friend. Butter is natural, the seed oils are not. We are nowhere near as healthy as prior generations and the only explanation I can understand is that our lifestyles are worse and that means our diets are worse.

Of course, we get much less activity than prior generations and that doesn’t help, but we consume the most seed oils of all time, these unnatural omega-6’s, and we have the greatest disease burden of all time in terms of Alzheimer’s and heart disease and cancer. Like it or not these oils all fundamentally create underperforming cells at the molecular and cellular levels. If you don’t give your body the correct building blocks and force it to choose inferior materials for the very essence of your cellular being, you’re going to get what we have today. You’re a hot mess and it starts with these oils. Get the sugar under control. Do the oil change; that is, increase your consumption of fish, fish oils, nuts, etc. and end your consumption of the processed oils. You must get your omega-3 level up and your omega-6 level down. To save your life get rid of all of the vegetable oils you’ve got in that cupboard today. Watch any of the superb lectures by Dr. Chris Knobbe; it’s only data in rats but the evidence is conclusive that high levels of linoleic acid/omega-6 are directly related to heart failure and diabetes and as previously mentioned, obesity. If you want to lose weight, if you want to lose the fatigue, if you want to improve your health overall, get off all of these oils. It will take quite some time to flush them out of your system. It may take up to two years so the sooner you start the better.

This information is not new. Again, I urge you to challenge your doctor about this. This is an essential part of your health; knowing your Omega 3 6 ratios. It should be a 1:4 ratio and most of you are way past that! The higher the ratio the worse your cellular health.

So, I have given you immediate action to take. I have given you suggestions to bring to your health care provider. I have given you references to pursue further research. What’s stopping you now?!

Dr. Barry