Sesame oil is *NOT* good food l

[Guest guest]

Nina, the data shows sesame oil is *NOT* a good food oil at 43%-45%

linoleic acid, and one should use it sparingly if at all. Sesame oil

is higher in this inflammatory fatty acid than even canola oil, the

use of which you discourage, and its peroxidation index is in the same

ballpark as canola, corn, and soy oils that we already avoid.

A screen shot of the oil peroxidation index for some food oils appears

here, first line of the references:

http://tinyurl.com/oil-references

More analyses of common food oils and their components that I can add

to the oils analysis worksheet after I check the figures are here:

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/fattyacids1.html

Anyway, the point is that most people already have an unhealthy intake

of linoleic acid at levels that contribute to inflammation, disease

and general metabolic suppression. See especially the research on how

the degree of dietary oil saturation corresponds to heart disease,

" Low fatty acid unsaturation: a mechanism for lowered lipoperoxidative

modification of tissue proteins in mammalian species with long life

spans. " J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2000 Jun;55(6):B286-91

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?

cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=10843345 & dopt=Abstract

Your quote:

> > As a general rule, we recommend olive oil and sesame oil as the

only

> safe,

> > stable unsaturated oils. Corn oil, soy oil, safflower oil, canola

> oil - uh,

> > uh, don't touch. They go rancid in the body very fast, if not in

the

> bottle.

....is also incorrect on sesame being saturated; the only saturated

fats in it are just 4.9% palmitic and 8.4% stearic acid.

I think after reading fatty acids expert Dr. Chilton's book

Inflammation Nation, which deals with the arachidonic acid pathway,

you would probably reduce your own intake of this oil and recommend to

your staff and readers to do the same, unless they used it only

sparingly and had no other source of linoleic acid, which doesn't seem

very likely.

Hope I've helped some readers to reduce a lifetime of inflammation

with this data

all good,

Duncan Crow (a wholistic consultant in Canada)

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> > Yummy! I love some of the foods you describe.

> >

> > As a general rule, we recommend olive oil and sesame oil as the

only

> safe,

> > stable unsaturated oils. Corn oil, soy oil, safflower oil, canola

> oil - uh,

> > uh, don't touch. They go rancid in the body very fast, if not in

the

> bottle.

> >

> > Nina

[Guest guest]

What is the the data on macademia nut oil?

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> > > Yummy! I love some of the foods you describe.

> > >

> > > As a general rule, we recommend olive oil and sesame oil as the

> only

> > safe,

> > > stable unsaturated oils. Corn oil, soy oil, safflower oil, canola

> > oil - uh,

> > > uh, don't touch. They go rancid in the body very fast, if not in

> the

> > bottle.

> > >

> > > Nina

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