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Volume 29 - No 1

Growth & Development
Nutrition Health & Wellness
Low Birth Weight
Malnutrition
142 min read
1 Issues
29 Volumes

A diet that is high in fat and low in carbohydrates is advocated in the recently published The Real Meal Revolution. A suggestion was made in this publication that seed oils are toxic.

Author(s): Prof. Demetre Labadarios

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An impression has been created over the past two years that seed oils are toxic and should be eliminated from the diet. This opinion was fuelled by a statement in The Real Meal Revolution,1 that sunflower and canola oil, among others, are toxic, and should be avoided. A high trans-fatty acid (TFA) content of seeds oils,2 omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid ratio,3 the so-called resemblance to mustard gas, and the genetic modification (GM)4 of seed oils were some of the reasons provided for the toxicity (Creed SA, 2015, personal communication with Albrecht CF). However, seed oils ...

Prof. Demetre Labadarios

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