Seed oils like canola, vegetable, corn, crisco, and margarine are all highly inflammable oils and should be avoided. Yet, we still see these oils being touted as “heart healthy” and used in everything from frying to salad dressings and ingredients in foods we eat every day.

Historically, our ancestors got fats from animals, dairy, fish, and a few plants like coconuts (depending on where they lived). There was very little heart disease, cancer and diabetes, unlike now.

Seed oils didn’t really become a thing until the Industrial Revolution, when byproducts like cottonseed, started being manufactured to use up the waste.

These industrial vegetable seed oils have to be processed with high heat and chemical solvents in order to produce any oil at all. Most of these oils are rancid by the time they get to the grocery stores, but have been deodorized to mask the smell.

Here is a wonderful podcast from Wise Traditions that talks about these industrial seed oils and how they harm our health. These industrial seed oils can “lead to a host of health conditions from obesity, to cancer, to diabetes, to premature aging.” Weston Price Podcast Episode 406. https://www.westonaprice.org/podcast/avoid-seed-oils/#gsc.tab=0

Changing the oils you use at home can be a quick and simple way to support healthy habits and improve you and your family’s health! Swap those inflammatory oils with avocado oil, olive oil, coconut oil, real butter, whole fat dairy, ghee, lard (from grass-fed animals) and even tallow.

Like Sally Fallon Morell says, get your fats right - if you don’t do anything else! Go back to eating real, natural fats that we find in nature! You will see improvements in the health of your family and yourself.