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When cooking some sort of oil is practically a necessity, but not all cooking oils are good for you. In fact, some might take an otherwise healthy dinner and turn it into something else entirely.
Specifically, if you use vegetable oil on a regular basis, it’s a good idea to rethink it–and maybe swap it out for another option.
Vegetable oils are highly processed, unlike olive oil, avocado oil, and coconut oil. So if you are trying to limit the number of processed foods in your diet, it's probably a good idea to skip vegetable oil.
There are other reasons you might want to limit this oil as well, including its amount of 6-omega polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA).
Very Well Fit explains, "[A]ccording to some very respected experts on nutrition — and to some clinical studies — omega–6 PUFA in large quantities may be a bad idea, at least when not mitigated by adding extra omega–3 PUFA."
According to EcoWatch, "Dr. Joseph Hibbeln from the National Institutes of Health has researched the impact of omega 6 and omega 3 fats on our health. He explains that over-consuming omega 6 fats and under-consuming omega 3 fats significantly increases: heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome or pre-diabetes, IBS, macular degeneration (eye damage and blindness), rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, cancer, psychiatric disorders, autoimmune disease."
So, to be on the safe side, avoiding oils, like some vegetable oils, that contain omega-6 PUFA in large quantities is probably a good idea. Very Well Fit continues, "These would be: a) the oils that contain substantial amounts of omega–3 PUFA in addition to omega–6 PUFA (including canola oil and flaxseed oil), or b) the pressed oils that don’t contain many PUFA at all, such as olive oil (in which MUFA predominates) or coconut oil (which contains a type of saturated fat)."
With this in mind, if you are regularly cooking with vegetable oil, it might be a good time to reconsider what exactly you are eating. Making the swap to a healthier option could be an important component of healthy living and might help you feel better.
