It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

layman’s terms, it’s why a few drinks makes you stumble, slur your words, and think you’re ...

your product that might make it sound less bad? Of course you would! So if you were Mr. Red Wine Pro ...

would have to drink more than 60 liters (that’s 80 bottles) of red wine every day. Seriously? The othe ...

optimal. THE GOOD NEWS Hear us out, now. We are not saying you can never eat any sugar or drink any alcoho ...

relevant/emotionally-significant.” We fully support those reasons. When it comes to less-healthy foods, understan ...

CHAPTER 9: SEED OILS “I suffered my very last migraine right before I went on the Whole30 program. Th ...

extracted from the seeds of various plants. While these oils come from a variety of sources (peanuts, s ...

acids. These are both considered essential fatty acids, necessary for human health but unable to be manufactur ...

function, metabolism, growth, and development—but if we eat too many, they can promote inflammation i ...

soybeans, usually in the form of oil, now account for an astonishing 10 percent of total calories in the United ...

The first concern with PUFAs in seed oils has to do with their stability when exposed to external stre ...

Alzheimer’s disease, high blood pressure, and even cancer ... and has a severe inflammatory effect in the bo ...

manufacturers try to combat this by adding artificial antioxidants back into their seed oils, but numerous ...

rancid before you even bring it home from the store! We then cook with these seed oils, exposin ...

SECOND VIOLATION: OXIDATION ON THE INSIDE One of fat’s jobs is to help build and maintain our cell membra ...

our cells themselves more vulnerable. (It’s like building a house with termite-ridden wood. The more ter ...

While some omega-6 fatty acid in our diet is essential for good health, too much throws our body’s fatty ...

and sunflower seeds into “high oleic” versions rich in oleic acid, a form of monounsaturated fat. T ...

seed oils and rely on the stable, health-promoting oils we’ll outline in Chapter 15 for cooking, sau ...

hemp sunflower Even though seed oils violate only one of our four Good Food standards, that’s a good e ...