Well. It trades trans-fats with saturated fats.The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute warned that the "high content of saturated fat... found in... palm kernel oil, palm oil, coconut oil, and cocoa butter" puts people at risk for heart attack or stroke. I would go with polyunsaturated fats like soy, canola, corn, and peanut oils as well as more stable oils such as high-oleic sunflower or canola oil, or low-linolenic soybean oil.
I would have to disagree with truehealthbalance. In fact I would do the exact opposite of what he says. Palm oil and coconut oil are the healthiest oils on the planet! His polyunsaturated oils and others that he mentions I would not recommend at all.
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My choices would be olive and coconut as the healthiest oils. Palm is a saturated oil; as is coconut. However coconut oil is an medium chain triglyceride. The lauric acid is the most healthy part for me. Antibacterial and anti-fungal and antiviral.
If I were to use palm oil, I would avoid it in processed foods; and only use it for my own cooking. I use coconut; because it can withstand high heat better.
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Well. It trades trans-fats with saturated fats.The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute warned that the "high content of saturated fat... found in... palm kernel oil, palm oil, coconut oil, and cocoa butter" puts people at risk for heart attack or stroke. I would go with polyunsaturated fats like soy, canola, corn, and peanut oils as well as more stable oils such as high-oleic sunflower or canola oil, or low-linolenic soybean oil.
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Truehealthbalance
I don't know much about palm oil...but i do know that hydrogenated oils like rapeseed oil (canola) and (gmo) corn and soy are about the worst oils you can consume....with the exception of oils designed for machines...like motor oil...
Any oil that has been hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated is bad. Most people, that don't follow the natural path to health, will tell you that coconut oil is the worst thing you can use. That is correct; except for unprocessed coconut oil, which is the top of the list of great healthy oils.
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Unlike butter or virgin coconut oil, hydrogenated oils contain high levels of trans fats. A trans fat is an otherwise normal fatty acid that has been "transmogrified", by high-heat processing of a free oil. The fatty acids can be double-linked, cross-linked, bond-shifted, twisted, or messed up in a variety of other ways.
The problem with trans fats is that while the "business end" (the chemically active part) is messed up, the "anchor end" (the part that is attached to the cell wall) is unchanged. So they take up their position in the cell wall, like a guard on the fortress wall. But like a bad guard, they don't do their job! They let foreign invaders pass unchallenged, and they stop supplies at the gates instead of letting them in.
In short, trans fats are poisons, just like arsenic or cyanide. They interfere with the metabolic processes of life by taking the place of a natural substance that performs a critical function. And that is the definition of a poison. Your body has no defense against them, because they never even existed in our two billion years of evolution -- so we've never had the need or the opportunity to evolve a defense against them.
But the worst part is that in the last stages of oil processing (or "refining"), the oil is literally steam distilled to remove its odor. So it doesn't smell. But a hydrogenated oil is much worse than rancid butter. So it it did smell, it would smell worse than the most rancid butter you've ever seen. (And that goes for all refined oils, not just the hydrogenated ones. It's just that hydrogenated oils are everywhere in the American diet.) So the next time you see "partially hydrogenated oil" on a label, think "rancid butter".
I use ONLY XVCoconut oil from Tropical Traditions for cooking or occasionally
plain Olive Oil. Have tried a couple of other brands but Blah on them.
I use XXVOO on salads or on some veggie dishes after preparation.
I use melted butter in baking.
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