The Truth About Seed Oils: Industrial Waste Product Now In Your Food

High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS

Mike Mutzel

Fasting, Nutrition, Autophagy, Ketogenic, Keto, Health & Fitness, Ketodiet, Medicine

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Cottonseed oil, once considered a waste product in the cotton industry, was transformed into ‘food' in the early 1900s by refining and hydrogenation. The acceptance of cottonseed oil as a suitable replacement for butter and animal fat was made possibly by effective propaganda and marketing strategies employed by Proctor and Gamble.

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Episode Time Stamps:

00:00 Crisco is hydrogenated cotton seed oil, originally a waste product.

00:57 Hydrogenated oils increase your risk for cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline, and possibly cancer.

01:20 Plant-based doesn’t mean it’s healthy.

02:22 There is a toxic to humans and animals, natural insecticide in cotton seed.

05:00 Proctor and Gamble convinced Americans that industrial processing was more like purification.

06:15 Hydrogenated oils make foods crispier and more palatable.

07:45 Doctors, dietitians, health experts, media, and influencers of the day were paid to promote Crisco as a superior food.

10:25 80 years later, we learned that animal fat is superior and more health promoting.

11:50 Focus on ingredients and how humans historically ate.

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0:00.0	In today's show, we're going to take a stroll down memory lane and talk about how industrial seed oils became ubiquitous dietary staples here in America.
0:07.3	We're going to share the story about Crisco, which is hydrogenated cotton seed oil.
0:11.5	Now, cotton seed, as you may may know is actually a former waste product.
0:15.2	It used to actually kill the wild hogs outside of the cotton mills in the south and
0:20.3	Proctor and Gamble and other food companies decided they could turn this waste product
0:25.0	into a staple food product that housewives and homemakers would use in cooking as a shortening
0:31.5	agent to help make wheat products more crispy to make pastries,
0:35.8	donuts, french fries, pies and that a little bit more palatable.
0:40.0	Now back then the population of America in the early 1900s was only 100 million people.
0:45.1	After its inception, just one year of launching Crisco, Procter and Gamble sold 60 million units of
0:51.7	Crisco, which is hydrogenated cottonseed oil.
0:54.8	Lest I remind you, partially hydrogenated and
0:57.2	hydrogenated oils are very unhealthy,
0:59.4	increasing your risk for cardiovascular disease,
1:01.7	possibly cancer, colon of cognitive decline and more.
1:04.4	So this history I think is worth noting and understanding because anyone who understands history
1:09.5	knows history often repeats itself.
1:12.3	And so when we see these novel food products come on the market
1:15.2	whether it's a meat alternative whether it's a chicken nugget alternative derived from plants
1:20.8	we need to remember that some of the most toxic foods and
1:24.6	most unhealthy foods in our food supply are partially hydrogenated seed oils,
1:29.6	high fruitose corn syrup, sugar, tobacco, they all come from plants.
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