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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – . .  . What’s the deal?  Personally, I don’t know.  I try to avoid canola and soy bean oil simply because they are in everything (try buying a salad dressing without them).  To me, that means they are cheap, and I don’t believe that cheap is good.  I use olive oil instead.  Nonetheless, I simply don’t know what to believe. LOL — I’m with you.  I try to stick with traditional fats/oils.  I eat plenty of saturated fats.  Those have provided a substantial proportion of the energy requirements for every person on the face of the globe for the past ten thousand years — except, of course, for the last 15 or 20. I also use corn oil and peanut oil.  Does anyone know when those oils came on the market as cooking oils? As to trans-fats, I generally avoid them.  The fact, however, that all the epidemiological studies show them causing a vast array of ills leaves me unmoved.  I’ve read the same reports about animal products and I do not believe them.  In fact, that Harvard Nurses study that used to report cancer, diabetes and heart disease resulting from the consumption of animal products is now saying they see no relationship.  That tells me that scientists, in those kinds of studies (epidemiological), find what they *want* to find.  Although saturated fats are still generally condemned, trans-fats are the real last bastion of the anti-fat crusade.  So, are they a real villain? or another phantom?  I don’t know.  I skip them and go for the real thing. Cookie

I agree with you — the less processing the better.  So, I try to eat food that’s not been processed at all or only minimally processed.  I tend to stick with Extra Virgin olive oil, for instance, and butter and avoid anything with transfats.  I also am not entirely sure that transfats are as bad as people say, but if I can eat something without it, why not do that? — Bob M in CT

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Hi all, Is canola oil among the acceptable oils on Atkins? Thanks

Yes it is. Don’t you people read the book?  It is right in there listed under Fats and Oils.

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Down girl, down.  alt.SUPPORT.diet.low-carb

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi all, Is canola oil among the acceptable oils on Atkins? Thanks Yes it is. Don’t you people read the book?  It is right in there listed under Fats and Oils.

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Down girl, down.  alt.SUPPORT.diet.low-carb

No kidding *but* if the original poster had read *the book* she would have seen in it that canola IS an acceptable oil right after olive oil.

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Hi all, Is canola oil among the acceptable oils on Atkins? Thanks

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Hi all, Is canola oil among the acceptable oils on Atkins? Thanks

Other than partially hydrogenated oils, all oils are acceptable according to Atkins.  Now, if you want to read some anti-canola oil rhetoric, there’s: http://www.luminet.net/~wenonah/new/canola.htm http://www.aspartame.ca/page_oho3.htm What’s the deal?  Personally, I don’t know.  I try to avoid canola and soy bean oil simply because they are in everything (try buying a salad dressing without them).  To me, that means they are cheap, and I don’t believe that cheap is good.  I use olive oil instead.  Nonetheless, I simply don’t know what to believe. — Bob M in CT

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. .  . What’s the deal?  Personally, I don’t know.  I try to avoid canola and soy bean oil simply because they are in everything (try buying a salad dressing without them).  To me, that means they are cheap, and I don’t believe that cheap is good.  I use olive oil instead.  Nonetheless, I simply don’t know what to believe.

LOL — I’m with you.  I try to stick with traditional fats/oils.  I eat plenty of saturated fats.  Those have provided a substantial proportion of the energy requirements for every person on the face of the globe for the past ten thousand years — except, of course, for the last 15 or 20. I also use corn oil and peanut oil.  Does anyone know when those oils came on the market as cooking oils? As to trans-fats, I generally avoid them.  The fact, however, that all the epidemiological studies show them causing a vast array of ills leaves me unmoved.  I’ve read the same reports about animal products and I do not believe them.  In fact, that Harvard Nurses study that used to report cancer, diabetes and heart disease resulting from the consumption of animal products is now saying they see no relationship.  That tells me that scientists, in those kinds of studies (epidemiological), find what they *want* to find.  Although saturated fats are still generally condemned, trans-fats are the real last bastion of the anti-fat crusade.  So, are they a real villain? or another phantom?  I don’t know.  I skip them and go for the real thing. Cookie

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