Avoid using this bad research….Today's post:  Tuesday, 10-17-2017 

Avoid using this bad research or following advice based on it:

Recently in Medical News Today there was a report of a finding that high blood levels of omega 6 might be heart protective. 

The article further suggested that soy oil was a desirable way to get a high blood level of omega 6.

This looks like deliberately fabricated research sponsored by the producers and marketers of soy and soy oil.

1.  Because both soy products and high blood levels of omega 6 have separately been shown to be harmful to your health in multiple ways, following advice based on this research could seriously damage your health.

Soy products are almost all grown with heavy spraying of herbicides and pesticides.  Many are GMO.  This means that eating them exposes you to all those toxins and genetic materials untested to be safe or tested to be harmful and the research deliberately hidden or suppressed.

What about the omega 6 oils?

The processing they undergo causes some hydrogenated oils that are proven to be harmful to form.  And, if they are heated in cooking, they break down in a way that causes excess oxidation which is also harmful.

The most important reason is that simply put, getting 10 or 20 times too many omega 6 oils and half or less of enough omega 3 oils, has been shown to dramatically boost chronic inflammation and inflammatory over-reactions to normal problems.

This high chronic inflammation has been shown to make heart attacks and strokes and other circulation diseases much more likely. It has been shown to make Alzheimer’s disease more likely!  And, it causes some cancers; and usually worsens any cancers once they occur.

NOT a situation you likely want more of or to stay in at all!

The best introduction to this is the book, AntiCancer: A new way of life.  It shows that eating soy or soy oil or eating animals fed soy is unusually harmful to your health for this reason. (Hybrid wheat is also high in omega 6 AND boosts blood sugar more than sugar.)

This means that high blood levels of omega 6 are harmful and that eating soy or soy oil is one of the most harmful ways to get them!

That’s why NOT following advice based on these new flawed studies is likely to protect your health.

2.  You may well ask if that’s so, how on earth did they get the seeming results they published?

I’ve not had direct access to complete information for the studies involved in this set of studies.

But I know how to make a study that would show this!

So my guess is that they used several studies that were similar to that model.

Hybrid wheat; hydrogenated oils; and animals fed soy and corn and GMO growth hormones and routine antibiotics; and high fructose corn syrup; other forms of free fructose; and very excessive regular sugar are ALL as harmful and often even more harmful.

The raw nuts and leafy vegetables and onions in salads are very protective.  That’s even more the case if all of them were organically grown.

In fact, walnuts and other tree nuts for those not allergic have some omega 6 oils but so many protective ingredients they are good for you to eat as long as you don’t get excessive omega 6 oils elsewhere.

That means that if someone stops eating all the other things that cause even more problems -- and eats far more salads and uses unheated soy oil in low doses in the salad dressing, their blood level of omega 6 may go up some and the net health effect would show as somewhat better.

The protective effects found in these studies, however, are about half those that people eating that many protective vegetables and nuts with no oil. 

They are likely even less than half of the protective effect of using extra virgin olive oil only and zero soy oil. 

3.  So the bottom line is to stop consuming everything on the list of most harmful things -- just as the people in these studies likely did.

And, to eat lots of organic vegetables including greens and onions as the people in these studies may have also done.

But to get extra benefit instead of harm or reduced benefits, use no soy oil!

And eat no soy products not organic, nonGMO, traditional fermented foods; and use those sparingly.

Use extra virgin olive oil instead!  That way you add greatly to your protection instead of dramatically reducing it.