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The claim by western heart associations over the years that palm oil is harmful to the heart has been challenged by the Nigerian Heart Foundation, international heart bodies and experts across the globe. Instead, they believe palm oil is a healthier oil for the heart than western vegetable oil. Martins Ifijeh chronicles this argument
Palm oil, which has been the toast of vegetable oil in West African and Asian continents, soon gained prominence in other continents of the world, with North America and Europe leading the pack among regions that had joined in embracing the oil for their diet. The Americans once referred to it as the magic oil, because of the unique flavour, flair and many desirable characteristics it gave to food.
But many decades after, America and some western countries have launched a campaign against the oil which has been used as a staple for diets, even in their countries, for several decades. According to them, it contains an artery clogging saturated fat that causes heart disease. A campaign that has gained prominence in those countries through their various heart foundations, associations, and most significantly, through their media apparatus, thereby preventing their citizens and visitors from patronising the use of the staple, for any of their diets.
By extension, the campaign has been taken to other countries of the world, including Nigeria, so as to convince them to de-emphasise the use of the oil, while denying them the benefits that come with it, as well as to convince them to embrace the use of foreign vegetable oil, like the Soy beans oil, which they say is a lot more healthier domestic oil than the palm oil. They also argued that, since they have branded it unfriendly for the heart, there was need to replace it across the globe, even in countries like Nigeria where over 70 per cent of its citizens use it, almost for every meal.
Source: ThisDay, HWN Africa.
: 2016-04-09 07:34:12 | : 1682
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