The number of times I had to explain that sunflower seed oil should not be heated to people praising it for being polyunsaturated fat.
Then their face when I tell them to use saturated fat for hot cooking because unsaturated fat degrade into trans-fats under high temperatures...
Kind of like how people spent decades buying margarine ''because it's healthier than butter'' but all they were doing was clogging their artery at record speed because their margarine was full of trans-fats.
Information about nutrition by media-picked ''experts'' is pretty much 2/3 harmful ''advice'' 1/6 neutral 1/6 useful.
Sure. When I was growing up butter was considered like heart attack in a stick. My parents never bought it, thinking that they were avoiding health problems. Only ever had it on Passover, when corn or soy oil margarine was prohibited. (The smell of frying butter still says Passover to me, more so even than the matzos.)
Then we found out that margarine is worse... When I took Chem 2 in college, circa 1991, the professor told us "After you take this course, you're never going to want to eat again, because you'll know too much about what's in your food. Forget the butter vs. margarine arguments, I have professional colleagues who put nothing but pure corn oil on their bread."
The number of times I had to explain that sunflower seed oil should not be heated to people praising it for being polyunsaturated fat.
Then their face when I tell them to use saturated fat for hot cooking because unsaturated fat degrade into trans-fats under high temperatures...
Kind of like how people spent decades buying margarine ''because it's healthier than butter'' but all they were doing was clogging their artery at record speed because their margarine was full of trans-fats.
Information about nutrition by media-picked ''experts'' is pretty much 2/3 harmful ''advice'' 1/6 neutral 1/6 useful.
Sure. When I was growing up butter was considered like heart attack in a stick. My parents never bought it, thinking that they were avoiding health problems. Only ever had it on Passover, when corn or soy oil margarine was prohibited. (The smell of frying butter still says Passover to me, more so even than the matzos.)
Then we found out that margarine is worse... When I took Chem 2 in college, circa 1991, the professor told us "After you take this course, you're never going to want to eat again, because you'll know too much about what's in your food. Forget the butter vs. margarine arguments, I have professional colleagues who put nothing but pure corn oil on their bread."