Are you aware that all the commercial food you eat is made with oil? Petroleum is chemically complex and can be modified into many compounds. Synthetic fertilizer used in fields is made from oil. The pesticide is made from oil. Tractors and harvesters need gallons. Farmers need government subsidies to keep up with the costs. You could drive your car with your box of cereal, so to speak. It is possible to imagine this process in wheat, which is planted over miles and miles adn forms the basis of our economy. Things such as berries and vegetables you expect to be better for you. Organic farming uses little petroleum. this is especially true when advanced hand tools are used. Creative new devices are eliminating the need for tillers. People are rediscovering the wheel hoe, for example. Getting this down makes it cheaper for a person to work an acre or two. Small local farmers might provide better food to many people.
These oils are supposed to help lower cholesterol and blood pressure, increase weight loss and somehow improve overall health.
Sure drink some crude and you'll lose weight, that's for sure, but I don't think it'll improve your health much! The chemical companies have created thousands of things from crude oil. Most of them are highly toxic in one way or another. They add so many MORE chemicals to the crude in order to process it into other things. The many thousands of chemical combinations are rarely tested for safety and appear all over our environment and in our homes. It's in our air and water and polluting our land. Our over dependence upon oil is what led us to go to war in the middle east over oil. It is what causes economic problems for everyone when it gets too expensive.
