
08/17/2025
You know the saying:
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure?
Well, no one believed this more wholeheartedly than Procter & Gamble. In the early 1900s, cottonseed was literally industrial waste, used for lamp fuel and little else.
But P&G saw dollar signs in this trash and turned it into Crisco, marketing it as a revolutionary cooking oil. With clever advertising and industry lobbying, they convinced America that these cheap seed oils were the future.
Canola (rapeseed), cottonseed, soybean, corn, safflower, sunflower oils are toxic!
Today, these ultra-processed oils are everywhere: from packaged snacks to restaurant fryers. We’re eating 10x more of this stuff than our great-grandparents ever did, but these aren't foods our bodies recognize or know how to process efficiently.
The Great Food Transformation
Two centuries ago, food meant something completely different. Your ancestors picked apples from the backyard. Now they’re coated in wax and stored for months. Meat came from animals that grazed.
Now feedlot cattle eat corn, soy, and even candy waste (yes, for real).
Even something as basic as bread has been transformed. Traditional bread was made with four ingredients: flour, water, salt, and time. Today's commercial bread can contain over 20 ingredients, including dough conditioners, preservatives, and emulsifiers.
Human genetics haven't changed significantly in the past 10,000 years.
But our food environment? It's been completely revolutionized in just the past 100 years. Our digestive systems, liver detox pathways, and cellular machinery evolved to handle real food, not laboratory creations.
This might explain why we're seeing skyrocketing rates of:
• Autoimmune diseases (affecting 50,000,000 Americans)
• Food allergies (increased 18 percent among children from 1997 to 2007), and today roughly 5.8% of kids (and millions of adults) have a food allergy
• Digestive disorders like IBS (affecting 10-15 percent of adults worldwide)
• Metabolic dysfunction including diabetes: affecting over 38 million Americans - that’s a staggering 1 in 9 people!
Let's make sure and promote eating solely healthy foods from nature.
Oils from fish (unprocessed as possible like the raw fermented cod liver oil we love here), extra-virgin olive oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, and quality butter are truly nutritious, wholesome, and traditional food sources.
To your abundant health!
Dr. Stan Gale
Julie and Debbie