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Heart risk increases with high Omega-6 cooking oils – New Study

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Dr .Christopher Ramsden, a Clinical Investigator, U.S. Since long the health monitoring bodies have allowed companies to put health messages on their labels saying that replacing saturated fats with poly-unsaturated fat Omega-6 rich vegetable oils help lower cholesterol. But in a story carried widely on CBC-TV's The National, this the theory has been trashed. In a recent study conducted by Dr Christopher Ramsden, a clinical investigator with the U.S. National Institutes of Health in Washington, researchers offered a fresh analysis of data from the Sydney Diet Heart Study, which studied 458 Australian men aged 30 to 59 with a history of cardiovascular disease for more than three years. "The group that was fed Omega-6 from Safflower oil, they had increased risk of death from all causes as well as death due to coronary heart disease and death due to cardiovascular disease" said the study author Dr Christopher Ramsden.Dr. Ramsden speculated that having more omeg

Why is Canola Oil better than Olive Oil?

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Some product promotions conceal more facts than they reveal and it is always better to understand your diet science to a healthy lifestyle. Olive oil has always been promoted as the healthier oil but you need to delve deeper, to grasp the result yourselves. Next, we should always apply this knowledge to see whether Olive Oil is actually suitable to Indian cooking. First and foremost, Olive Oil has 14% Saturated Fats which raise LDL (Bad Cholesterol) while Canola oil has only 7%, probably the lowest amongst all cooking oils. Dr. Dean Ornish, M.D., President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute & Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Fransisco says “Studies comparing the effects of canola oil versus olive oil show that canola oil consumption results in lower LDL cholesterol levels. This is not surprising, since olive oil contains approximately 14% saturated fat, whereas canola oil has much less. It’s clear that olive oil is a healthier fat than