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What makes canola oil, a mono unsaturate, unhealthy?Most people consume processed foods. So it's a cinch overweight people would consume mroe of them.Not sure thats really been well established.That's a quantity issue, not a quality. Protein and natural fats are far healthier for a person than are refined carbohydrates and processed fats.
Obesity is about consuming far more calories than are taken in. Lots of things account for that. Lack of activity has to rank high up there.
Certainly lack of activity has an impact; but weight is largely a function of diet. Highly processed foods high in processed sugars and refined carbs are "addictive" because they don't satisfy nutritionally. The morbidly obese people I've encountered have all over consumed processed foods.
But if people ate potatoes fried in olive or canola oil and home made cheeseburgers every day they'd probably still be obese.
Canola oil is a very unhealthy choice. I'm coming back to Quantity. If some one has a four ounce hamburger and a few fries, that's not going to make them fat (although personally, I would skip the fries and have some green vegetables).
As an aside, I heard on the news that the average soda drinker consumes 450 calories per day in sugary drinks every day.
Yuck.
It's not a natural part of the human diet. Highly refined vegetable oils have only been around for a few decades. Our bodies weren't developed to digest them. Also, Canola oil partially transforms in to trans-fats at high temperatures, so using it for fried foods isn't a good idea.