THE TRUTH ABOUT SEED OILS

An Extensive Research Guide

By Feminine Mothering

Your cooking oil was sold as soap before it was sold as food.

In 1911, the same hydrogenated cottonseed substance that Procter and Gamble had been turning into soap was bottled, given a new name (Crisco), and marketed to households as a clean, modern alternative to lard and butter. They paid doctors to recommend it. They sent free recipe books into people’s kitchens. Within twenty years, the fats human beings had cooked with for thousands of years had been replaced in almost every kitchen with a substance the same company was still using to make soap.

The same playbook was run with soybean oil, with corn oil, with rapeseed (a machinery lubricant in the war), with sunflower and safflower. Every one of them was waste, or a byproduct, or an industrial substance looking for a market. Your kitchen was the market they found.

We are now three generations into that experiment.

WHAT IS INSIDE THIS GUIDE

Fifty seven pages of research, history, biochemistry, and practical guidance. Every claim sourced. Written in my own voice, not a clinical one.

The history. How seed oils came to dominate the modern food supply. The Procter and Gamble cottonseed story. The Sugar Industry Papers exposed in JAMA Internal Medicine, showing how Harvard scientists were paid in 1965 to blame saturated fat and protect sugar. The Sydney Diet Heart Study and the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, both showing seed oils killed people faster than the food they replaced, both buried for around forty years.

The biochemistry. What linoleic acid actually does inside your body. The 1.9 year half life in your adipose tissue. The 136 percent rise in the fat content of human bodies between 1959 and 2008. The OXLAMs. The cardiolipin disruption inside your mitochondria. The aldehydes generated when you heat these oils. The way the seed oils you ate ten years ago are still inside you.

The cold pressed question, answered honestly. Why organic cold pressed sunflower oil is better than the refined version but still not what your great grandmother would have used. The high oleic exception. The truth about flax and hemp.

The ultra processed food story. Drawing on Dr Chris van Tulleken’s Ultra Processed People. The NOVA classification. The fact that UPF makes up 57 percent of UK adult calories and 65 percent of UK children’s calories. The bliss point. Why removing seed oils is, by accident, the cleanest possible UPF protocol because almost nothing in that category can exist without them.

The body systems. Dedicated chapters on the gut and microbiome (the 2023 UC Riverside research on how linoleic acid breaks the gut wall and feeds the wrong bacteria). Autoimmunity and chronic inflammation, with my own story of curing fibromyalgia using German New Medicine as a lens. The skin and the sun, which will change how you think about sunscreen forever, with the lipid peroxidation mechanism and the Nurses’ Health Study skin cancer data. The brain, the mood, and the addiction.

Fertility, hormones, and pregnancy. Egg quality, sperm quality, hormone disruption, breast milk composition, what this means for the developing baby. Why this matters at every stage of life.

Your children. The infant formula problem. Where seed oils are hiding in children’s food. How we feed our family without them, on a normal budget.

The practical map. Where seed oils are hiding (almost everywhere). What to use instead. How to read a label in three seconds. Eating out without losing your mind. How long it takes to reverse, and what changes within the first four weeks.

The chapter I am most proud of. Eat With Peace. Why the one who eats clean food with anxiety and the one who eats imperfect food with peace will not have the same outcome. The autonomic nervous system physiology underneath Dr Tommy John’s happy doughnut is healthier than a sad salad. The permission to be human inside the knowledge.

THIS IS NOT A GUIDE THAT TELLS YOU TO BE A PURIST

I am not a purist. I buy the organic rosti with sunflower oil sometimes because it is the rosti my children want. I eat the food my friend cooked for me. I eat the cake at the birthday party. The point is not to be afraid of food. The point is to know what you are eating, set up your daily kitchen well, and live the rest of your life eating with peace.

WHO I AM

I am Amelia Stewart-Short, the founder of Feminine Mothering. My background spans clinical psychology, hypnobirthing, classical Feng Shui and nonduality teaching. I draw on frameworks including Human Design, German New Medicine and circadian biology in my work.

I am a mother of three, all born at home, two by completely unassisted freebirth. I have spent over a decade rebuilding the way our family eats around the fats the body was actually designed to run on. My focus is on nourishment in every sense of the word. The food. The relationships. The rhythms. The way we speak to ourselves. The water, the sunlight, the rest, the joy.

This guide is the distillation of ten years of reading, cooking, and feeding my family without these oils, paired with the most rigorous research available.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

The Truth About Seed Oils. 57 page PDF. Instant download. Yours to keep, reread, and share with the people in your life who are ready to know.

PRICE

£33

This guide is written for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing in these pages constitutes medical or nutritional advice. Please research thoroughly and make informed decisions for yourself and your family.

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