Raw Olive Oil - A Big MistakeRaw olive oil, and any other oil extracts, will put you on a path toward disease, whether you're on a raw food diet or not. Simply put, oils are not the wonder food they've been made out to be. Instead, they're the highly-concentrated accumulations of everything bad about otherwise healthy food. Scientists have known for some time that cooked vegetable oils are carcinogenic (1) (2), but people continue to down the stuff. Many on raw food diets assume the uncooked extracted oil of vegetables, nuts and seeds should be healthy because they are in whole form, and probably eat it more of them than any other group. They douse their salads with oil and add it to their smoothies, contributing to their high fat diets. What is Oil?
Vegetable oils are made in various ways, but raw olive oil is traditionally made by grinding down olives using large millstones. This produces "virgin oil". The leftover olive paste is further crushed to produce lower grade oil.So what has been taken out? Virtually everything of value. Raw Olive Oil: What's Left Isn't Worth Your TimeOils, whether they're sourced from olives, flax, coconut, hemp, almonds, or other sources, have been stripped of their fiber, protein, and carbohydrates,They are 100 percent fat; empty calories, just like like extracted protein and cane sugar. Vendors try to sell you on the phytochemicals contained in their oils, but why not just get them in their intact state from fresh, whole food that hasn't been sitting in a bottle for a month? The beginnings of rancidity set in soon after the fiber has been removed, so it make sense to get your fat fresh. Whole-food fats (avocados, nuts, seeds, etc), eaten sparingly with their full compliment of macro and micronutrients, are healthy. The body can't function without fats, after all. But high fat diets cause disease. and impairs body function. High fat diets reduce the amount of oxygen that can be transfered in the bloodstream, as well as our ability to uptake, transfer and deliver glucose, which fuels every cell in the body (3). Anytime we overeat on fat, even healthy fats, we under eat on carbohydrates over overeats on total calories. The later causes weight gain and physical decline, the prior leads to underconsumption of nutrients. Raw olive oil is simply a bunch of useless- and likely disease causing- fat. Following Up:
Ditch the
raw olive oil and go with a healthy raw food diet.
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