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Canola oil is regularly promoted as a healthful cooking fat. A new study, however, suggests that it could be more harmful than helpful — particularly for the brain.
Senior study investigator Dr. Domenico Praticò, of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, and colleagues recently reported their results in the journal Scientific Reports.
Canola oil is a type of vegetable oil that comes from rapeseed, or Brassica napus, which is a yellow flowering plant that belongs to the cabbage family.
The very first commercially consumable form of canola oil was developed by Canadian researchersin the 1970s. Unlike some forms of rapeseed oil, canola oil is low in erucic acid, an omega-9 fatty acid that some research has linked to cardiovascular problems and Read the Full Article
Canola oil, unless explicitly stated as organic, is one of the 4 tragic horsemen, i.e., corn, soy, cotton & canola. The story is mainly a pesticide one with Glyphosate + all the other chemicals contained in Monsanto’s Roundup. It is the cheapest oil found in nearly all fried foodstuffs and processed cookies and biscuits etc. If the ingredients list states “vegetable oil”, yeah, it’s the food industry’s way of hiding the fact the oil is probably canola and likely laced with the Roundup pesticide molecule. BTW, it you want to lose weight, keep your arteries and veins free of plaque, adopt a low or *no* oil diet and lifestyle. Shop at the raw vegetable and fruit sections.