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haele

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15. I saw a PBS history type show "Food Saviors" - they were highlighting Okra
Sat May 23, 2026, 12:09 PM
23 hrs ago

A medium sized family farm in Georgia presses their own small batch oils, including Okra Seed Oil (along with pumpkin seed, Sunflower seed, and various nut oils and olive oil mixes).
The primary reasons seed based oils are not well received is in the heat and time point between cooking (especially sauteing) and burning.
All that being said-
What is called a Mediterranean or East Asian type diet with moderate portion sizes has been shown to be healthy and recommended for almost two centuries now for the average person in the Northern Hemisphere: low starches, moderate fatty foods, whole grains as a "carb base" for the meal. Meals should consist of whole "fruits and veggies" and animal (including dairy and eggs) servings on about a 1 to 1 mix, with moderate amounts of sugars.
And, of course, vinegars, herbs and spices (don't forget those) as healthful digestive and metabolism supplements.
Proteins can be supplied with plant protein, but the lipids are not the same, and while good half of people in the Northern Hemisphere can easily live on on plant proteins, some people still need meat based proteins.
Also, extremely heavy labor or extreme environmental situations (especially extreme cold) where the body might require more fat and animal proteins for the energy to "keep going" might change a ratio of animal based fats to plant based fats needed, but nutrient requirement is still pretty much the same to maintain human health.

But with even a basic understanding of biology, when looking at the industrialized "diet plan" that has been pushed over the last century or so, public nutrition seems to be based on "class" and the amount of profit in the supply chain. The industry wasn't so much concerned about overall health benefits and varieties, it's designed to facilitate sales of high profit commercially grown or manufactured products as "just as healthy" as lower profit, regional food products that aren't mass produced and profitable.

Your milage on nutrition may vary, of course, but then, that's between you, your phlebotomist, and your doctor.

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Why would anybody follow nutbag Kennedy's nutritional advice? Diamond_Dog Yesterday #1
I suppose the amount of saturated fat in a roadkill diet would depend Ocelot II Yesterday #2
How much saturated fat in raccoon dick? PCIntern 23 hrs ago #11
It must be funded by the financial interests that will benefit bucolic_frolic Yesterday #4
Bigotry. Period. LuvLoogie Yesterday #6
Message auto-removed Name removed 23 hrs ago #12
There are basically only two ways that food spoils GreatGazoo Yesterday #3
And yet, canola oil has essential fatty acids that beef tallow doesn't tinrobot Yesterday #9
I saw a PBS history type show "Food Saviors" - they were highlighting Okra haele 23 hrs ago #15
I like my essential fatty acids without hexane MadameButterfly 8 hrs ago #23
Then buy cold pressed/organic oils tinrobot 1 hr ago #25
Here is a more complete (and less sensational) summation of analyses regarding seed oils liberalgunwilltravel 23 hrs ago #14
The amount of hexane remaining is incredibly small NickB79 44 min ago #26
I was in rehab to get my heart back to normal gab13by13 Yesterday #5
Kick dalton99a Yesterday #7
maha isn't why beef is high right now Kali Yesterday #8
Flax seeds have most essential amino acids. ananda Yesterday #10
Anyone who takes medical or nutritional advice MLWR 23 hrs ago #13
Steak n Shakes 7x7 burger is seven patties with seven slices of cheese. Midnight Writer 23 hrs ago #16
I love steak gulliver 23 hrs ago #17
Our ancient ancestors hunted and moved about with periods of famine long and short bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #18
They didn't have as much advertising then gulliver 22 hrs ago #19
Ha! bucolic_frolic 22 hrs ago #21
Food stances of MAHA and some on the right biocube 22 hrs ago #20
How else will Eliquis and Ozempic afford all those ads? flvegan 22 hrs ago #22
I hadn't paid attention to the seed oil panic. Chemical Bill 3 hrs ago #24
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