"Today nothing that the Heart Specialist does cures Heart Disease. Heart Disease, like Diabetes and many, many similar systemic failures, is due largely, if not entirely, to the consequences of bad engineering in our fats and oils industry. The transfats and other toxic isomers in our engineered fats and oils are well understood to damage our cellular membranes, to interfere with cellular respiration, to inhibit glucose transport, to set in motion consequences that corrode our arteries, damage our eyesight, devastate our kidneys, destroy our venous system, and directly cause the large array of similar systemic problems. There is even evidence to link these engineered fats and oils to our incredible Cancer epidemic through their interference with cellular respiration. These toxic fats and oils have even been linked to epidemic ADHD in our schools. It is important to know enough about fats and oils to be able to make kitchen use of them and to make intelligent food selections of these all important substances. It's really not complicated, when information is presented with the intent to inform instead of to deceive." Thomas Smith, author of Insulin: Our Silent Kille
Mary Enig, PhD - "... Because polyunsaturates are highly subject to rancidity, they increase the body's need for vitamin E and other antioxidants. Excess consumption of vegetable oils is especially damaging to the reproductive organs and the lungsboth of which are sites for huge increases in cancer in the US. In test animals, diets high in polyunsaturates from vegetable oils inhibit the ability to learn, especially under conditions of stress; they are toxic to the liver; they compromise the integrity of the immune system; they depress the mental and physical growth of infants; they increase levels of uric acid in the blood; they cause abnormal fatty acid profiles in the adipose tissues; they have been linked to mental decline and chromosomal damage; they accelerate aging. Excess consumption of polyunsaturates is associated with increasing rates of cancer, heart disease and weight gain; excess use of commercial vegetable oils interferes with the production of prostaglandins leading to an array of complaints ranging from autoimmune disease to PMS. Disruption of prostaglandin production leads to an increased tendency to form blood clots, and hence myocardial infarction, which has reached epidemic levels in America.
Vegetable oils are more toxic when heated. One study reported that polyunsaturates turn to varnish in the intestines. A study by a plastic surgeon found that women who consumed mostly vegetable oils had far more wrinkles than those who used traditional animal fats. A 1994 study appearing in the Lancet showed that almost three quarters of the fat in artery clogs is unsaturated. The "artery clogging" fats are not animal fats but vegetable oils. Those who have most actively promoted the use of polyunsaturated vegetable oils as part of a Prudent Diet are well aware of their dangers. In 1971, William B. Kannel, former director of the Framingham study, warned against including too many polyunsaturates in the diet. A year earlier, Dr. William Connor of the American Heart Association issued a similar warning, and Frederick Stare reviewed an article which reported that the use of polyunsaturated oils caused an increase in breast tumors. And Kritchevsky, way back in 1969, discovered that the use of corn oil caused an increase in atherosclerosis...." The Oiling of America
