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Cigarettes In A McDonald's French Fry Carton
Seed Oils
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May 10, 2025

Toxic Seed Oils Turn French Fries Toxic, Sadly

French fries are a beloved indulgence, but the toxic seed oils used to fry them can transform this treat into a health hazard. You may have seen this photo of cigarettes in a French fry cup before. It’s an AI-generated image. But it’s not just a made-up meme. It started circulating shortly after I was interviewed for this movie. During the interview, I made the rather shocking comparison between cigarettes and French fries. That comes from a study called: Toxic Lipid Oxidation Product (LOP) Generation in Culinary Frying Oils (CFOs) During High-Temperature Frying Practices: Passage into Fried Foods. In it,…

GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATING HOW SEED OILS PROMOTE OXIDATIVE STRESS AND FREE RADICALS
Seed Oils
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May 10, 2025

Why are seed oils unhealthy?

Why Seed Oils Are the Biggest Threat to Your Health Seed oils,  also known as vegetable oils, or more precisely as The Hateful Eight, are not benign. To best understand why seed oils are harmful, we need to understand a biological process called oxidative stress. Oxidative stress: the great disease promoter. Understanding oxidative stress is crucial if you’re interested in health or nutrition science. I have spent over two decades researching various diets and their ability to prevent or promote oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is the root cellular process driving all known diseases. It occurs when free radicals—unstable molecules—overwhelm the…

Hangry Man Holding Knife And Fork Over An Empty Plate
Insulin Resistance
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February 4, 2025

Why do we get hangry?

Hangry is not normal hunger. Normal hunger is usually brought about by smelling food. It’s also common to feel normal hunger around our normal mealtimes because our digestive system has its own internal clock that keeps excellent track of time. (This is why your dog or cat always seems to know when it’s dinner o’clock.) Ordinary hunger does not make us angry or irritable. And unless we’ve gone for days without eating, normal hunger is a light stomach-grumbling sensation that goes away when we ignore it. Hypoglycemia makes us hangry. Hangry on on the other hand is hard to ignore.…

Low Smoke Point Olive Oil On High Heat–Is It Safe?
Olive Oil
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June 10, 2024

Low Smoke Point Olive Oil on High Heat–Is It Safe?

Olive Oil has a Low Smoke Point. Can you still cook with it? We’ve all heard a thousand times high smoke point oils like soy and canola are the oils of choice for cooking–especially high-heat cooking. This is a particular concern for professional chefs who typically cook with temperatures far higher than those used by a home cook. If the oils aren’t smoking that must mean, the thinking goes, that they are chemically stable. No smoke, no free radicals, no toxins. No problems. But I want you to set aside, for a moment, everything you’ve been told about smoke point…

Seed Oil Free Foods And Healthy Shopping List Items
July 28, 2020

Healthy Shopping List of Seed Oil-Free Foods

For help in understanding what to expect from your metabolic recovery and how to recover the fastest, please schedule a consultation.   Alphabetical List Of All Food Categories, Including Seed Oil Free Foods You will notice right away that many of these foods are naturally seed oil-free. However I have found that many people are uncertain about other foods, so I’ve included a lot of ordinary foods that are very healthy. Artichoke Hearts Great sliced in salads (with olive oil, garlic, olives and sundried tomatoes) Buy if sold in olive oil or water and sold in glass jars. Cans are ok…

Food Rules Dr Cate
Books
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July 6, 2020

Food Rules: A Doctor’s Guide to Healthy Eating

In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.

Deep Nutrition
Books
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July 6, 2020

Deep Nutrition

In this book, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.

Hidden Metabolic Disorders Allow COVID-19 To Kill “Healthy” People
Science and Medical News
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April 6, 2020

Hidden Metabolic Disorders Allow COVID-19 to Kill “Healthy” People

GOOD NEWS! Physical copies of Deep Nutrition and The FATBURN Fix sold out from Amazon but ebooks and audiobooks are still available. Deep Nutrition is available from BooksAMillion.com and The FATBURN Fix is available from Barnes and Noble. Food Rules is available in all formats on Amazon. This article covers Why coronavirus is “like a flu” but also worse than scientists could have predicted Why coronavirus can cause lung failure (ARDS) in seemingly healthy adults Underlying metabolic conditions predispose people to ARDS Most of these conditions are related to high-PUFA seed oil consumption How PUFAs promote ARDS Simple action points to…

The Fatburn Fix Featured
Root Causes
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March 24, 2020

Dr. Cate Shanahan’s book: The FatBurn Fix

It’s not you that wants to overeat. It’s not you that doesn’t have the energy to exercise. It’s your metabolism. If you’ve gained and been unable to lose or lost and regained, it’s not lack of willpower. It’s lack of FATBURN.

Are Products With Soy Lecithin Safe To Eat? (Like Chocolate & Ice Cream)
Causes of Disease
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February 23, 2020

Are Products with Soy Lecithin Safe to Eat? (Like Chocolate & Ice Cream)

Page Content: What is Lecithin and why is it in so many foods? Is soy lecithin bad (high PUFA)? What about Sunflower? Everything that applies to SOY lecithin also applies to SUNFLOWER lecithin How much soy lecithin is there in chocolate, ice cream and other products? Should I avoid chocolate or other foods that contain soy lecithin? What about other problems with soy like GMOs and phytoestrogens? If you’ve been reading labels lately, you might have noticed soy lecithin showing up on the ingredients list. If you haven’t, take a look the next time you buy prepared foods like chocolate,…

Can You Really Cook With Olive Oil?
Nutrition
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February 10, 2020

Can You Really Cook with Olive Oil?

The whole concept of smoke point may have been created by the edible oil industry to sell us their cheap, flavorless and (now we know) unfortunately quite toxic products.

Dr Cate Shanahan's List Of Good Fats And Bad Including The Hateful Eight
Seed Oils
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April 9, 2017

List of Good Fats and Oils versus Bad

This page was created to serve as a resource listing good fats and oils versus bad fats and oils. The goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for discussions around why a given fat or oil is good or bad for human health, and to include recommendations for the healthiest cooking practices.

Diet Increases IQ
Brain
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April 2, 2017

Can a low-PUFA Diet Really Increase Your IQ?

Learn how your diet may be affecting your IQ. We used to think that our IQ was fixed based on our genetics. But now we know that just as our genes can change during our lives, so can our neurons.

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