Canola Oil--Consume or Trash

You decide!

The Food and Drug Administration stated:

"Limited and not conclusive scientific evidence suggests that eating about 1 1/2 tablespoons (19 grams) of canola oil may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease due to the unsaturated fat content in canola oil. To achieve this possible benefit, canola oil is to replace a similar amount of saturated fat and not increase the total number of calories you eat in a day. One serving of this product contains [x] grams of canola oil."

The FDA's site says that they did not want "to not mislead consumers" about the oil and therefore, they intentionally used the phrase "limited and not conclusive" in their claim.

But in 2005, U.S. Canola Association (USCA) President Paul Tyer said, "Healthy oils like canola are key sources of fat in the diet and can help get and keep Americans healthy."

But, what exactly is Canola oil? And where does it come from?

Canola oil is derived from the rape seed plant, the most toxic, oil-producing plant. Through genetic alteration, the plant was converted into "canola" or low erucic acid rapeseed (LEAR); its toxic component of erucic acid was decreased, and it was named after the nation in which it was altered, Canada.

Today, the majority of canola oil used in the U.S. is derived from GM plants. It contains 0.3 to 1.2 percent of euricic acid.

According to a Chinese study released in 1995, unrefined Chinese rapeseed oil "may increase lung cancer risk."

No U.S. studies showing the long-term effects of human consumption of canola oil have been published by non-canola oil supporters. For more information go to world-read, columnist DL Dewey's Web site.

Canola oil is listed as a pesticide on the EPA's Web Site!