The Demise Of Saturated Fats In The U.S. Food Industry, One Man Made A Big Difference

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Phil Sokolof - Wikipedia
. . . And Phil Sokolof

A few years ago [around 1986] Sokolof founded the National Heart Savers Assn., for which he supplies almost all the funding. Late last year the association bought full-page newspaper ads that accused major food-manufacturing companies of "poisoning" consumers by using coconut and palm oils in many of their products. The ads drew a lot of public and corporate attention; at least one food company threatened a lawsuit. Now, though, the threats have disappeared. Phil Sokolof has pretty much won his crusade.

Last week Sokolof announced that he had been told by General Mills, Ralston Purina, Borden, Pillsbury and Quaker Oats that they would soon start replacing the coconut and palm oils in their products with vegetable oils containing unsaturated fat. Earlier four other food companies--Kellogg, Sunshine Biscuits, Pepperidge Farm and Keebler--had said that they would stop using the tropical oils

Credit to the LA Times (. . . And Phil Sokolof)
 
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They only did it because the other oils were cheaper. Palm oil is not just a saturated fat. It's a mix of all three; poly, mono. Although saturated fat may not cause heart disease, it does contribute to obesity if over consumed.
 

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They only did it because the other oils were cheaper. Palm oil is not just a saturated fat. It's a mix of all three; poly, mono. Although saturated fat may not cause heart disease, it does contribute to obesity if over consumed.

While I think cost is a factor, you have to remember that there are many things that affect cost. If demand for the PUFA oils went dramatically up, that will increase price. If more suppliers got into the market, that would lower price. If anything, government intervention in the form of subsidies (for things like corn and soy) lowered the price on the PUFA oils. One of the reasons coconut oil was used in the first place is because it was so cheap. It would be interesting to see the industrial prices for coconut oil and the other PUFA oils around the mid-eighties, and something like the campaign mentioned above could affect product sales of manufactured foods.

Yes Palm Oil is a mix of all three..... but so is every other natural occurring fat. MCT oil and Fully Hydrogenated Coconut Oil have been synthetically altered. But you know as well as everyone else on this forum that the Palm Oil is more Saturated that the standard PUFA rich oils, like soy, corn, cottonseed, and so on.

And while Saturated Fat will indeed contribute to obesity, so will over-consumption of Monounsaturated Fat, Polyunsaturated Fat, Sugar, Starch, Protein, and Alcohol. Basically, over-consumption of something we would call "food," or "drink."
 
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