Fructose in both its natural form (fruit) and its excessively concentrated form (high fructose corn syrup) have recently received a reputation for being fattening. In fact, high fructose corn syrup is blamed for much of the world’s diabetes epidemic.

During a study in which they tried to prove this, however, researchers reached a surprising conclusion. They found a food type that poses an even larger diabetes risk.

In fact, the surprising culprit is found in numerous health-conscious people’s kitchens and is sold as a healthy food option by many restaurants.

Of fructose, soybean oil, and coconut oil, most people believe that fructose is the most fattening, followed by coconut oil, followed by soybean oil. After all, fructose is sugar, coconut oil is a saturated fat (the vegan equivalent of a cup of cream), and soybean oil is a healthy polyunsaturated fat.

If asked this question, much of the academic community would have expected both the oils to be more fattening than the fructose, as it has long been understood that fat contains almost twice as many calories per gram as carbohydrates do. From most to least fattening, they would have predicted coconut oil, then soybean oil, then fructose.

But what no one would have predicted is the discovery a new study just made.
Academics at the University of California Riverside wanted to prove that coconut oil caused more weight gain than soybean oil. They fed some mice a diet that contained 40% fat, as this is approximately the amount of fat the average American diet contains. The first group of mice received their 40% of fat in the form of soybean oil, and the second received theirs as coconut oil.

Since the researchers were also curious to compare the weight gain of the high soybean oil and high coconut oil eaters with the weight gain of high fructose eaters, they stuffed some of the mice with the same amount of fructose that the average American consumes.

This is what they found:
• The soybean oil eaters gained the most weight. They gained approximately 25% more weight than the coconut oil-eating mice and 9% more than the fructose-eating mice.
• The fructose eaters gained the second most weight. They gained 12% more than the coconut oil-eating mice.
• The coconut oil-eating mice put on the least weight.
These were not the worst of the findings, however. Here are some more:

• Compared to the coconut oil eaters, the soybean oil eaters suffered much higher levels of insulin resistance and fatty liver with signs of liver injury. These are all characteristics of type 2 diabetes.
• Compared to the oil eaters, the fructose eaters suffered much higher levels of kidney damage and prolapsed rectums, a symptom of inflammatory bowel disease.
In other words, if you want to avoid inflammatory bowel disease, cut all fructose that is not fruit from your diet. If you want diabetes to pass you by, exclude soybean oil.

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When researchers in the 1960s concluded that animal fat was unhealthy, food manufacturers switched to vegetable oils when making everything from margarine, to crispy potato chips, to salad dressings. Unsurprisingly, they picked one of the cheapest vegetable oils for this purpose, which happened to be soybean oil.

As a result, almost all pre-made and packaged foods contain soybean oil, which obviously explains why type 2 diabetes is such a massive and increasingly widespread problem today.

Our food selection is further complicated by the fact that scientists are still unsure which oil to recommend. The authors of the above study specifically warned that they were not recommending saturated fat (like coconut oil) above polyunsaturated fat (like soybean oil), as they had not studied the cardiovascular effects of either.

For now, the best approach is to reduce your intake of soybean oil, since you know it to be a diabetes risk. I personally would also recommend replacing it with olive oil and coconut oil.

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