What Eating Processed Flour and Vegetable Seed Oils Really Does to You

My grandfather was a farmer and consumed grass fed meat, clarified butter and whole home grown food. Lived 96 years of healthy, fulfilling life

After a while of pure foods and a strict routine for exercise, you can actually taste the chemicals in processed foods.

Spot on. 12 years ago, I lost 200 pounds. Did basically what he's recommending. 7 years after that, I slacked off, started eating junk again like doughnuts and pizza, saying to myself, "I'll just work off the calories later." Problem is, later often doesn't come around, because the junk food makes you feel lethargic. Over the next 3 years, I put on all the weight I had lost. It was a perfect storm of stress factors that lead to me stress-eating. Bad breakup, moving to a new state, new job, another bad breakup, Covid lockdowns forcing me out of work, both my cat and dog dying of freak ailments at age 8 in 2021, and then my car gets totaled. Since my car accident in July 2021, which nearly killed me, I decided to regain control of my health, and have lost 100 pounds. Cut out the sugars, reduced my carbs, increased meats and fats, do fasting, going for walks (started small at 100 feet, and now I can do over 5 miles before needing a rest), and now cutting out seed oils. If I want something sweet, I eat raw apples, peaches, pears, bananas, or plumbs. Never canned/packaged. I'm also growing my own kale and tomatoes in a hydroponics garden. Once I'm more fit, and move to either Southern Utah or Northern Texas, I'm gonna start hunting my meat (elk or hog, most likely), and using the fat/tallow instead of store bought oils. If I can swing it, I might get a property where I can have a chicken coop, decent size garden, and maybe a goat or cow for dairy needs. My long term goal is to eat only what I hunt/grow/raise myself. It's a lot of work, but so what? It'll keep me in shape, and give me purpose. Sounds like a good deal to me.

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I have some old dietary books of my Mom's from the late 1970s that talk about the intentional removal of fiber from manufactured products. First they took out fiber to make us able to eat more without feeling full (cookies were used as an example—used to be that old saying, "don't be going and spoiling your dinner with that cookie" because most people used whole wheat flours. By removing fiber, people can eat a whole container of cookies without feeling full—we just start feeling sick from the sugar). Then, the manufacturers switched away from lard and butter to these "seed bases oils" that were homogenized/hydrogenated—originally, margarine was made from animal fats, then replaced with seed oils. Ironically, German chemist, Edwin Cuno Kayser, when he moved to Ohio & presented the hydrogenation processes to Procter & Gamble, his intention was the manufacturing of soap. Instead, P&G chose to market this new "lard like substance" as "a shortening substitute" ("shortening" at that time being synonymous with lard). Oreos are prime case of this change from saturated animal fats to hydrogenated seed oils (the claim at the time was enable their products to be kosher—despite, the only issue at the time with the use of lard was the source of lard—namely pork vs ethically sourced alternatives [editor's comment: I should probably have said, "rendered animal fat of animals permitted under Kosher (and related religious covenants/regulations/guides), beef tallow, rendered poultry fat, or other related sources—beef tallow being a known and commonly used fat, such as McDonald's french fries being fried in approximately 20% beef tallow before the shift in the 1990s to an entirely seed based oil source) or other related restrictions such as that required by related Islamic food regs]. Then, they moved to other oils when the concerns over trans fats gained large widespread market force. At some point, I suspect the fiber was also stripped from the products. The "low fat" diet craze (pushed by the sugar lobby through the complex manipulation/abuse of the natural course of science research) enabled manufacturers to replace "fat" for "sugars", which when combined with the vast corn subsidies resulted in replacing sucrose with an even more processed product "high fructose corn syrup".

I have Multiple Sclerosis, and I was 250lbs at 5’4”. So 7 yrs ago, I cut out most breads, most gluten, sugars, and just nasty junk, I lost 100lbs and have kept it off. Not only is my weight better, but my cholesterol is normal again, BP is normal, and my MS is not spreading anymore. Changing my diet changed my life!!

I live in the UK,, a trip to any supermarket is an absolute eye opener. 80% of the edible products on offer are in fact processed inedible junk. I have been eating only wholefoods for 6 weeks now, I feel better and I am losing weight. I consider this to be a lifestyle change now, and not a diet. Thank you Dr Jamnadas.

This Doctor has changed my life. I am so glad I stubbled across him. He is a brilliant but humble man and he puts things in such layman terms I appreciate him. I am truely healing and feel fantastic! Thanks Doc!

I make my own bread at home. The ingredients are organic wholegrain flour (which includes the germ as it's roughly stone ground) yeast, water and salt. That's it! It's easy to make, tastes great and there's nothing like the smell of fresh bread cooking. 🙂

I grind flour out of sunflower seeds and I bake it into bread without extra ingredients that don't belong in bread. It's delicious and VERY HEALTHY. I'm 72 years old and I've been doing this for almost all of my life. Never been ill a day in my life that I can remember and I'm as srong as a horse. I still do cartwheels with my grandchildren and the neighborhood children.

My mom has always taught me that butter is good for me (everyone else was eating margarine) during the “low fat” craze. I’m now 25 and tried a lot of diets - vegetarian, vegan, keto, paleo etc. After all this time and experimenting I came to one conclusion. I know this will now seem very obvious but it wasn’t for me and still isn’t for 90% of the people: Just eat whole foods. As the good doc here says too: avoid seed oils, avoid processed foods. Try to cook your own meals and most importantly; get all your nutrients. I am thankful for all the people on my journey like many people people here on youtube and in real life for sharing their own experiences. I still don’t live an entirely healthy life (I have my vices) but I’m on my way there. Stay healthy everyone.

Recently I've been having a lot of gut trouble and have been paying much more attention to my diet. The discovery I've made is that it's actually pretty hard finding healthy ingredients - just about anything you find in the average grocery store is so processed it's hard to believe.

My grand father, lived 102 yrs. walked 2 mils/day. Vegetarian. Ate a little less than full, home food. Never ate "modern" processed foods. Well educated. Straight. Truthful. Lived within his means. Followed daily news. Sent his children to college. It is not just the food. They way of living promotes health.

This message about processed food and the terribly inflammatory seed oils like canola, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower and “vegetable oil” is extremely important. We need more doctors who have this kind of knowledge and are willing to share it. Thank you!

I love that he pointed out the problem with polyunsaturated fats: particularly their tendency to oxidize. Anything fried in these oils oxidizes and forms trans fats, leading to cancer and atherosclerosis.

Thank you Doctor, you may have added 10-15 (maybe more) years to my life. I don't have any diseases but getting old and need to watch what I put into my body for optimum health

Doc you should be made surgeon general and have power to destroy processed food industry.

Using the processed food labels were strong learning aids for me: 1 tsp of sugar = 4 grams; "vegetable oils" are usually made from seeds; and bread should not have a laundry list of ingredients. Thank you for making such important videos to save us all.

Thank you Dr Jamnadas. The extra effort you put in to do these videos despite your busy schedule shows your genuine passion to help.

I really got to looking at the ingredients on labels in the past four or five years, not only for food and drinks, but hygiene products as well. With enough research into what they are, and enough time (practice) doing so, you eventually see ingredients and nutritional facts like a matrix code, and stay away from "bad/corrupt" code (toxic, harmful, synthetic ingredients). It's extremely important what you put in and on your body. Thank you for your videos!