Comments on: Palm Oil is NOT a Healthy Replacement for Partially-Hydrogenated Oils http://blog.ultimatefatburner.com/2009/05/28/palm-oil-healthy-replacement-partiallyhydrogenated-oils/ Dedicated to topics that fall within the general theme of UltimateFatBurner.com (i.e, exercise, body building, supplements,weight loss, diet, etc), but outside the realm of product reviews. Please review our posting protocols page before contributing. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:20:43 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: jean moulin http://blog.ultimatefatburner.com/2009/05/28/palm-oil-healthy-replacement-partiallyhydrogenated-oils/comment-page-1/#comment-4456 jean moulin Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:17:44 +0000 http://blog.ultimatefatburner.com/?p=1970#comment-4456 Much of the propaganda being put out by the medical establishment, especially the FDA, and the food processing industries is poppycock. This applies to both unrefined, virgin palm oil and unrefined coconut oil. Use common sense for just a moment here: if these oils were so atherogenic as big industries and the FDA are now claiming, how come there are numerous cultures where people have consumed them in large quantities for thousands of years with practically no incidence of heart disease?? Besides which, the medical establishment itself is now having to back away from all this nonsense, now that the huge differences between the fat composition of coconut oil and other high saturated fat sources has become clarified (coconut oil consists of MCTs, which are metabolized very differently from other fats) and now that we know that virgin palm oil is loaded with very potent antioxidants that reduce cancer and other disease risks. Do not believe the hype: use the Precautionary Principle. It is little wonder that novel new chemicals like artificial trans fats, to which humans were never evolutionarily adapted, are dangerous. But things we've been eating for thousands of years? They ought to be given the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, the FDA does not operate on this commonsense principle. Instead it gives the benefit of the doubt to artificial products produced by big business interests, but routinely subjects natural, unpatentable substances to the most gruelingly rigorous cross-examination (cf the story of stevia sweetener for an abject example of this hypocrisy). Much of the propaganda being put out by the medical establishment, especially the FDA, and the food processing industries is poppycock. This applies to both unrefined, virgin palm oil and unrefined coconut oil. Use common sense for just a moment here: if these oils were so atherogenic as big industries and the FDA are now claiming, how come there are numerous cultures where people have consumed them in large quantities for thousands of years with practically no incidence of heart disease?? Besides which, the medical establishment itself is now having to back away from all this nonsense, now that the huge differences between the fat composition of coconut oil and other high saturated fat sources has become clarified (coconut oil consists of MCTs, which are metabolized very differently from other fats) and now that we know that virgin palm oil is loaded with very potent antioxidants that reduce cancer and other disease risks.

Do not believe the hype: use the Precautionary Principle. It is little wonder that novel new chemicals like artificial trans fats, to which humans were never evolutionarily adapted, are dangerous. But things we’ve been eating for thousands of years? They ought to be given the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, the FDA does not operate on this commonsense principle. Instead it gives the benefit of the doubt to artificial products produced by big business interests, but routinely subjects natural, unpatentable substances to the most gruelingly rigorous cross-examination (cf the story of stevia sweetener for an abject example of this hypocrisy).

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