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> vegetable oils Canola (Canadian Oil) or rape seed was used as an industrial lubricant oil. The first human lifecycle testing is now showing results. I avoid

• elevaet 4y ago
  Its use as a lubricant is irrelevant to the discussion.
• kritiko 4y ago
  rapeseed is a brassica - do you avoid broccoli, cauliflower, mustard, brussels sprouts, etc?
  • landemva 4y ago
    Humans didn't consume large quantities of seed oil until relatively recently. I don't consume processed seed oils, even if the seeds are sourced from a vegetable plant.
    • feet 4y ago
      How do you define what is processed
• gamblor956 4y ago
  Coconut oil and olive oil are also used as lubricant oils. On a similar note, note, water is used as a lubricant, an industrial cleaner, an industrial solvent, and has strong corrosive properties. Too much water consumption can cause death.
  • landemva 4y ago
    I agree humans are well adapted to water consumption. The water from my well is delicious.
    • feet 4y ago
      Humans are well adapted to consuming fatty acids, in fact there are some that are essential to our diets because we don't have the enzymes to produce double bonds at specific locations
      • dilap 4y ago
        Ray Peat has an interesting essay questioning if they are really essential. https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/unsaturatedfats.shtml
        • feet 4y ago
          I question his expertise https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthProfessional/ https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthPro...
          • dilap 4y ago
            I don't know if he's right or not, but he's talking about specific, concrete studies -- real data. The page you link to say says: > A deficiency of essential fatty acids—either omega-3s or omega-6s—can cause rough, scaly skin and dermatitis [5]. Then when we go look at [5] we get: > Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary reference intakes for energy, carbohydrate, fiber, fat, fatty acids, cholesterol, protein, and amino acids (macronutrients). Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2005. That's not actual data. Presumably the reference intakes are based on some sort of data (would take some digging to find out, since it's incoveniently not hyperlinked) -- I might speculate it's based on exactly the 1929 Burr study that Peat is arguing was mistaken. Hard to know though, without some digging. Do you think PUFA is essential because it's what the NIH tells you, or because of specific experiments that have been done which demonstrate it?
            • feet 4y ago
              Signaling molecules such as endocannabinoids are constructed from specific essential PUFAs, that combined with our cells swapping out different fatty acids to alter membrane fluidity tell me that we do need them in our diet because we literally lack the enzymes to construct them. If you had read the entire page that I linked you would have seen that Do you think biochemical research into these pathways just stopped in the 1930s?
• hombre_fatal 4y ago
  Industrial application doesn't mean something is unfit for consumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil#Other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil#Other