Study: New GM Soybean Oil and Non-GMO Are Terrible Compared to This OilHeather Callaghan When this writer came across headlines that suggested a new genetically engineered soybean oil was healthier to humans than conventional soybean oil she just had to bite and see what is the newest GMO claim. How healthy is genetically modified soybean oil? one asks innocently. Another says GE soybean oils is slightly healthier than conventional implying that both are a part of a complete breakfast. Truthfully, the researchers are saying that both soybean oil and a new oil from genetically engineered soybeans are unhealthy. This must be a scientific first an ounce of truth after years of repetition that soy is healthy- even though it was wrapped in a misleading headline. Still, researchers continue to espouse the virtues of soy even though the natural health consumers have for the most part left it behind. The following researchers, however, went a step beyond by comparing DuPont Pioneers new oil to both conventional soybean oil and coconut oil a first time event. The Endocrine Society recently presented the following information at their 97th annual meeting in San Diego: The recently introduced high-oleic soybean oil (Plenish, from DuPont Pioneer) had not been tested for long-term metabolic effects until this study, said the senior investigator, Frances Sladek, PhD, a professor of cell biology at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). In a previous study, Sladeks postdoctoral fellow Dr. Poonamjot Deol found that mice fed soybean oil as part of a high-fat diet had higher rates of obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance (an inability to efficiently use the hormone insulin) and fatty liver than did mice on a diet high in saturated fat from coconut oil. In the new study, the researchers gave four groups of mice (12 mice in each group) different diets for six months. The control group received a low-fat diet, in which 5 percent of daily calories were from fat. The other groups received a diet with 40 percent of daily calories from fat, which Sladek said is an amount common in the American diet. One diet was high in saturated fat from coconut oil, and one had 41 percent of the saturated fat replaced with regular soybean oil. The last group had 41 percent of the saturated fat replaced with the genetically modified high-oleic soybean oil. Although it appears that DuPonts oil creates less insulin resistance in mice comparing it to coconut oil is what offers the real perspective needed when it comes to diet. DuPont was trying for something more akin to olive oil and jumping on the 0 transfat bandwagon. Of course, if such extreme ecological and healthful interventions hadnt been unleashed in the first place to create complex problems the solutions wouldnt be necessary or marketable. But wheres the profit fun in that?? Sladek isnt sure if this new GM oil could possibly be as beneficial as olive oil but concludes that neither soy product compares to coconut oil. What he isnt openly saying but presumably wants to is that soybean oils in any form are no friend to the endocrine system. Heather Callaghan is a natural health blogger and food freedom activist. You can see her work atNaturalBlaze.com and selfnewsPost.com. Like at Facebook. Recent posts byHeather Callaghan: For years weve been informed that coconut oil (outside of fish, a primary source of saturated oil for dozens of cultures in the southern Pacific), was heart-deadly. Yet they didnt get heart attacks. Were told that saturated animal oils from the heavy-fat diets of northern Indian cultures would kill us (yet they have been some of the healthiest people on earth, till modern science showed up and told them they should eat soy, canola, corn oils, and margarine, instead). Human bodies need oils and fats in our diets. Natural oils and fats. Not chemically or genetically modified oils and fats, natural ones. Shall we start a heated debate over whether margarine or GMO butter or GMO corn oil, soy oil or canola or fake virgin olive oil are best for us? We dont have to, millions of year of evolution dictate the need for natural oils. So far Monsanto and the rest have focused on short-term crops, leaving coconut and olive trees out of their financial loop (these sources take too long to grow). Fortunately for anyone seeking natural sources of oil and fat: organic olive and coconut, and grass-fed dairy and meat will supply us what we need, for now. Till they get around to totally ruining these sources, too. Note that theyre now feeding GMO alfalfa to free-range bison, so thats a leg up for them. But certainly not for us. 