Is it better to eat vegetable oil or animal oil？ Many people really didn’t eat right!
Oil, in the daily diet, also plays an important role, and it is basically needed when cooking. But many people think that eating vegetable oil every day is not good for health. There are even some old people who think that in the past, living conditions were poor and eating animal oil every day, so many people were not sick. Now that living conditions are good, eating vegetable oil every day leads to more diseases?
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Is there more disease because eating vegetable oil is not good for health? Many people think that "in the past, people often ate animal oil for lack of material, and there were fewer people suffering from heart disease and cardiovascular disease, so eating animal oil was more conducive to health". In fact, this idea is not completely correct! Xie Xinhui, the chief physician of Jixi Chicken Mine Hospital in Heilongjiang Province, published an article in the People’s Daily Health in January 2021. The main component of animal oil such as lard is fat. Relatively speaking, there are more saturated fats, which is also the reason why animal oil is criticized for being unhealthy. Because the saturated fat content is too high, it may lead to abnormal lipid metabolism, cause people’s obesity and induce cardiovascular problems. Cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, which we are all familiar with, are not the result of one risk factor, but a combination of multiple risk factors, such as our common bad living habits such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, hyperglycemia, high-salt diet, smoking, excessive drinking and genetic factors.①
Is it better to eat vegetable oil or animal oil? Zhi Jiehua, deputy director of the Department of Gastroenterology, the First People’s Hospital of Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, introduced in the People’s Daily Health issue in August 2022 that vegetable oil is indeed better as a common oil from some components in vegetable oil and animal oil, mainly because vegetable oil contains monounsaturated fatty acids, while animal oil contains mostly polyunsaturated fatty acids. Although the two substances are saturated fatty acids, they are different in nature. One is beneficial to the cardiovascular system, and the other is easy to damage the cardiovascular system. In this way, it is not difficult to see that eating vegetable oil often is obviously more beneficial to health. But for animal oil, it can’t be directly judged to be bad. Animal oil also contains some healthy ingredients. For example, lard can help to clear the intestines, and for people with constipation, it can relieve constipation.②
Many people don’t eat right about eating oil! Dr. Zhi Jiehua reminded that if you can’t eat vegetable oil or animal oil correctly, it will bring more harm to your body. For health, you’d better pay attention to five details of eating oil! 1. As little as possible, the smoke point of frying and frying vegetable oil is not high, that is to say, it is not resistant to high temperature, and frying and frying need high temperature. In this case, it is easy for the ingredients in vegetable oil to have adverse reactions at high temperature and increase the intake of harmful ingredients. For example, benzopyrene, polycyclic aromatic essence, these substances intake too much, easy to increase the risk of cancer. In addition, after decomposition of vegetable oil at high temperature, the trans fat content will increase obviously, and this substance is harmful to cardiovascular system, which is easy to increase the risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. 2. Don’t always eat one kind of oil. Some families are used to eating one kind of oil, so they will insist on eating it and will never change it. Others may choose cheap food or choose a certain oil according to their preferences. These practices are actually not healthy. Eating oil is the same as eating, and it needs to be diversified, not too single. Eating animal oil occasionally is also healthy. After all, some animal oil can also bring benefits to the body. 3. Control the total intake. Don’t think that vegetable oil is safer than animal oil and contains less fat. Just think that it doesn’t matter if you eat more, but in fact, nothing can be beyond a reasonable range. According to the Dietary Guidelines for China Residents 2022, it is best to control the daily intake of edible oil at 25-30g.Can reduce that intake of trans fatty acid. 4. It’s best to eat less self-squeezed oil. Some families prefer to eat self-squeezed oil, thinking that self-squeezed oil is more mellow and the cooked food is more fragrant. However, many people are prone to have a problem in the process of eating, that is, if they choose a small workshop or squeeze oil by themselves, they are likely to eat oil containing aflatoxin, which may increase the risk of liver disease or liver cancer. Another problem is that the oil pot filled with self-extracting oil is easy to contain molds and other microorganisms if it is not cleaned for a long time, and too much intake is also harmful to health. 5. There is also a shelf life when the oil is eaten within 3 months after opening. In order to reduce the oxidation reaction between oil and air and accelerate the deterioration of oil, it is necessary to cover the oil every time it is used up and eat it within 3 months, otherwise the oil will deteriorate, and too much intake is also harmful to health.②
This article is synthesized from: ①2021-01-21 People’s Daily HealthNo. "Fat man who wants to be a good doctor" and "Is lard really so useless that it can never be ingested? The doctor has a good talk with you. 2022-08-021 People’s Daily HealthNo. "Gastroenterology Branch Doctor" "Vegetable oil is better than animal oil? Pay attention to 5 details when using vegetable oil.
(Health Times)