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Why Bobbi is so fat

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If you think that sugar is the unhealthiest thing you can eat, 
you're wrong. Apparently, the Worst Food on the Planet Award 
should actually go to soybean oil, suggests new findings 
published in the journal PLoS One.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uoc--
soc072015.php?cid=SYND-_-Foxnews-_-
SuperCommonOilThatScienceNowShowsIsWorseThanSugar-_-Article-_-
Aug3-_-NewFindingsPublishedInPLoSOne

Setting up a sort of dietary cage match, researchers fed mice a 
series of diets each containing 40 percent fat. The fat in the 
first diet was primarily saturated and came from coconut oil, 
while the fat in the second diet was primarily unsaturated and 
came mostly from soybean oil. The researchers also fed mice two 
altered versions of the high-fat diets that also contained 
fructose.

The assumption was that the fructose-eating mice would pack on 
the most fat and develop the worst insulin resistance. But 
that's not what happened. Instead, the mice who ate the soybean 
oil diet without fructose gained the most weight—9 percent more 
than the fructose-eating mice and a whopping 25 percent more 
than the mice who got their fat from coconut oil. Compared to 
their fructose-eating counterparts, the mice on the soybean oil 
diet also had fattier livers and more insulin resistance—both 
signs of impending diabetes and metabolic syndrome.

"That was a surprise, given that most people think that 
unsaturated fatty acids [like those found in soybean oil] are 
supposed to be healthy," said lead study author Poonamjot Deol, 
Ph.D., a cell biologist at the University of California, 
Riverside. They're also everywhere. A full half of all the 
vegetable oil produced in the world is soybean oil. And since 
it's cheap, the stuff is used in endless packaged foods. It's 
also a favorite at restaurants—many of which tout the fact that 
they use soybean oil right on their menus because it's perceived 
as healthy.

Deol and her colleagues aren't totally sure what makes soybean 
oil so horrible, but they guess that it could have something to 
do with the way the stuff influences genes that determine how 
the liver metabolizes fat. And other processed vegetable oils 
might not be much better.

"We've actually tested corn oil, and we found that it was also 
causing more obesity than coconut oil, but not as much as 
soybean oil. We haven't tested canola yet," she said.

But how much weight can you actually give to a study that was 
done on mice? Actually, more than you'd think. The amount of fat 
and fructose in the rodents' diets were designed to mimic what 
the average U.S. adult eats on a daily basis. What's more, the 
genes in our livers and the genes in the livers of mice act 
fairly similarly. So if loads of soybean oil turns a mouse's 
liver to fat, it probably isn't great for us, either.

That's why, even though more research is needed to unveil the 
nitty gritty details of how soybean oil wrecks our health, it 
makes sense to cut back where you can, Deol said.

So, avoid processed food that lists the stuff as an ingredient 
as much as possible. As for cutting it out altogether? It's 
worth a shot, but good luck.

"It's so prevalent in our food system. If something says 
vegetable oil, it's most likely soybean oil, or soybean oil is a 
component," warned Deol.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/08/03/common-oil-that-science-
now-shows-is-worse-than-sugar/?intcmp=trending

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