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To: SilverSeeker who wrote (256)	2/9/2007 2:13:45 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

I disagree totally on canola oil, or rapeseed oil. It is a new oil to food. cyberparent.com The jury if firmly out. Canola is not a primary a mono-unsaturate. You want to reduce all polyunsaturates except those contained in small quantities in food, such as in fish. They are necessary, but only in small quantities. Deep frying or eating foods made with hydrogenated or other vegatable oils is definitely out. Olive is unique as it is a dominant monounsaturate. This kind of oil seems to ameliorate CV conditions and does not add to cholesterol formation, whereas other polyunsaturates do. Walnuts pecans and other dry nuts seem to have a beneficial effect, reducing cholesterol formation, and has been mentioned in this thread. Walnuts themselves have been tested and may effect an actual rollback of cholesterol. Olive oil in the same test was not seen to add to plaque formation, but walnuts seem to have medicinal effects in reduction. This needs further study. I admit that we are not totally sure of the effect of vegetable oils. In the meantime, since they are new and unique to modern eating habits, and seem to have accompanied an increase in degenerative ailments since the turn of the century. We are seeing a lessened expectation of lifespan once an individual has reached 60, so it would appear that elimination of these oils could be a good idea. My thinking here is to return to a diet that is known to have an outlook of increase lifespan once middle age has been reached. Before the turn of the century once one had reached 60, one was more likely to reach 80 than today. The difference in average lifespan in the modern age is entirely due to the increased survivability to middle age, because of the reduction in death due to bacterial, and childhood infections largely due to increased public health measures. We must remember that the germ theory of disease is a late 19th century invention and the "elimination" of cholera, polio, tuberculosis, child bed fever, tetanus, typhoid, strep, staph and smallpox has only been in the last 100 years. This brings the averages up, but does not increase total longevity. Degenerative illness such as cancer and heart disease is more of a problem to people over 40 than it was 100 years ago in the G7 countries. The reasons are what we eat and what we do. It is not a matter as some aver of more people living longer so they have to die of something. That is a lie. The statistics do not bear this out. The enemy of all truth is the average. Since you are a producer and have a large investment, you are incapable of being impartial. I realize that. I am reducing all oil, for two reasons. One they are GMO often, and that has an unkown effect. I do not feel paranoid about GMO, but you have to admit it a dark room, and experimental area. The subject of the experiment is you. The longer term experiment which is what we lived on for 2000 millenia, is a safer one. Return to foods that are more like that seems good. The other reason is they are in the case of soy and canola gmo in and have added some very grotty nerve poisons that eliminate crops for replanting. Read about these class of nerve poisons on page 154 of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. I read it in 1963 and the whole class did. We believed it and threw copies of the books at our teacher who did not. We (and Rachel and a few others) were right, at 12 and 13 years of age, and the teachers and the Dupont scientists were wrong. Rachel predicted indirectly the death of 50,000 US soldiers in Vietnam from Cancer. Where does that leave you? Well you could raise organic canola or soy, better still. I do not favour any non organic crops regardless. the insecticides and herebecides destroy vitamins and could be contributing to cancer and nerve damage, even at very low levels. Read about xeno estrogens. EC<:-}

To: SilverSeeker who wrote (256)	2/9/2007 7:48:45 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

Canola oil has been touted as a healthy oil due to its low saturated fat and high monounsaturated oil content - the latter almost 60% - and beneficial omega-3 fatty acids profile. The Canola Council of Canada states it is completely safe and is the healthiest of all commonly used cooking oils.[4] Traditional rapeseed oil contains very high amounts of erucic acid and glucosinolates, both of which are undesirable for human consumption. Erucic acid is implicated with cancer and rancidity and glucosinolates are goitrogenic. Canola oil reduces them to very low levels - 0.5-5% for erucic acid for example - without eradicating them completely. Nonetheless, the oil generated controversy. In March 1996 John Thomas published an article, "Blindness, Mad Cow Disease and Canola Oil", in Perceptions magazine, implicating Canola oil with glaucoma and the Mad Cow Disease. [5] This article was taken up, condensed and widely circulated in a story via emails. The industry condemns this as an email hoax and states its claims to be wholly unsubstantiated. In Nexus Magazine, Volume 9, Number 5 (Aug-Sept 2002), however [6], dieticians Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary G. Enig published another article, called "The Great Con-ola", questioning the industry's marketing claims, stating that Canola oil 'has a number of undesirable health effects when used as the main source of dietary fats'. They cite many independent studies done in the late 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, which show animals fed on a pure Canola oil-based diet suffers from vitamin E deficiency, a decrease in blood platelets count, an increase in platelet size, and shortened life-spans. Canola oil also seemingly retards growth, which was why the FDA prohibited its use in infant formula. The authors state that most omega-3s in canola oil are transformed into trans fats during the deodorisation process, quoting a University of Florida study which found trans fat content in Canola oil to be as high as 4.6%.[7] Trans fat-free canola alternatives have been developed, though they remain a minority in the market.