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Written By Olivia Williamson
Friday, 17 May 2013

There is so much risible nonsense these days, but there’s nothing more risible than the disingenuous guff released by environmental groups on palm oil! It’s gotten so bad that when you read anything on palm oil, you should look beneath the sauce to see if it’s pasta.

We’re moved to write these series of papers detailing the lies that are fed to the world at large by green groups and blindly regurgitated by a main stream media that is too undermanned or too lazy to investigate the roiling cauldron of blunderbuss allegations against what is probably the world’s healthiest and most sustainable oilseed crop bar none!

Last week we discussed how Phil Sokolof’s National Heart Savers Association (NHSA) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in their misguided zeal to try to damper the edible oil market juggernaut that is palm oil ended up poisoning America for a generation by actively campaigning for the use of trans fats which is now proven to clog arteries and damage heart health. This ended in the tragic mass adoption of trans fats by the food manufacturing industry, fast food chains and the consumer alike.

So ironically, both CSPI and the NHSA and the mainstream media who gave them column inches and airtime for their misguided campaigns were all complicit in the actual poisoning of America. The Mayo Clinic warns that trans fat is double trouble for your heart health.

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Written By Olivia Williamson
Friday, 10 May 2013

Last week, we wrote of how Phil Sokolof’s misguided campaign targeting tropical oils like palm oil and coconut oil in the simplistic belief that the saturated fats they contain was somehow linked to heart disease. However, Sokolof’s campaign was later discredited when tons of scientific studies later proved that palm oil was, in fact heart friendly as it is rich in medium chain triglycerides and powerful anti-oxidants like tocotrienols, co enzyme Q10 and beta carotenes. The saturated fats in palm oil were also found to be in the sn-1 and -3 position which has very different biological consequences than animal fats such as lard and milk fats as the saturated fats are primarily found in the sn-2 position!(see: Donald J. McNamara, PhD: “Palm Oil and Heart Health: A case of Manipulated Perception and Misuse of Science” 240S Vol 29 No. 3(s) Journal of the American College of Nutrition)

We also showed how Sokolof’s campaigns served as a playbook for anti-palm oil forces who funded groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to try to damper the edible oil market juggernaut that is palm oil.

So sadly in the mid-eighties, responding to the connection that medical authorities made between saturated fats and heart disease, CSPI and another activist organization, the National Heart Savers Association (NHSA) founded by Phil Sokolof, campaigned vigorously against corporations’ use of saturated fats, endorsing trans fats as a healthy, or healthier, alternative.

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