Dr Sanjay Chugh MD (Medicine), DM Cardiology, AIIMS, New Delhi, FACC. Senior Consultant and Chief Interventional Cardiologist, Head of Department of Cardiology, Heart Institute, New Delhi.
While tofu, soy milk or soy sauce are good, because they contain small quantities of soyabean oil and large quantities of healthful compounds such as essential fatty acids and proteins; the same may not be true for soyabean oil.
Soybean oil could be worse for your health than sugar.
The recently reported UC Riverside study on mice linked soyabean oil consumption to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimers,anxiety,depression via its harmful effects on the hypothalamus.
In fact weight gain and body fat was more than in mice on a fructose diet.
Soybean oil could be worse for your health than sugar.
Hence it is advisable to restrict use of soybean oil.
Smoke point of cooking oils
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