Hello and welcome to episode number 463 of the Nutrition Diva

podcast. I'm your host Monica Reinagal. Some popular diet trends are recommending that you eliminate all forms of oil from your diet,

including oils that are often promoted as being healthful, such as olive oil.

So our question this week is,

is an oil-free diet healthier?

Nutrition diva listener Joy recently asked about oil-free diets in a Facebook discussion that we were having.

What do you think about the idea that oil is unhealthy and should be avoided, she wrote.

I've noticed that some plant-based recipe blogs that I like

highlight their oil-free recipes,

and a doctor told me I should work on eliminating all oil, not fats, just oil, from my diet.

If you haven't already done a podcast on this topic, please think about covering it.

Your wish is my command, Joy.

Let's take a closer look at some of the arguments against oil.

One argument is that oil is processed and therefore unhealthy.

Oils are generally extracted from whole foods.

Olive oil is pressed from whole olives.

Corn oil is pressed from corn and so on.

In the process of extracting the fat, valuable nutrients such as fiber are left behind.

Oil is also much more calorie dense than the whole foods that it's pressed from.

Okay, this is similar to arguments that I've made against fruit juice.

When we squeeze an orange, we remove the fiber and end up with a more concentrated source of sugar and calories.

And we can also drink a glass of juice much more quickly than we can eat an orange, and that

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