Nutrition Notes

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Nutrition Notes

1. Dr. de Villa's Traffic Lights of Nutrition
2. Frying with unsaturated vegetable oil may be dangerous to your long term health.
The Effect of Heated Fat on the Carcinogenic Activity of 2-Acetylaminofluorene Evidences on Lipid Peroxide Generation:
	a. Food fried In Vegetable Oil May Contain Toxic Compound b. Hepatotoxicity of heated and oxygenated corn oil Exp Toxicol Pathol. 1992 Sep;44(5):255-8. c. Induction of lipid peroxidation in biomembranes by dietary oil components Food Chem Toxicol. 2003 Nov;41(11):1481-9. d. Teratogenic actions of thermally-stressed culinary oils in rats Free Radic Res. 2002 Oct;36(10):1051-8. e. The capacity of glutathione reductase in cell protection from the toxic effect of heated oils Biochimie. 2002 Jul;84(7):661-5.Click here to read f. The effect of thermally oxidized soya bean oil on metabolism of chylomicrons. Increased uptake and degradation of oxidized chylomicrons in cultured mouse macrophages Atherosclerosis. 1987 Jul;66(1-2):45-53. g. ... more ...
Evidences on Acrolein Generation:
	a. Quantitative analysis of acrolein in heated vegetable oils by liquid chromatography with pulsed electrochemical detection. J Agric Food Chem. 2004 Sep 22;52(19):5816-21. b. Mutagens from heated Chinese and U.S. cooking oils. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1995 Jun 7;87(11):836-41. c. ... more ...
Other Toxic Chemicals Generated:
	a. Carbonyl emissions from commercial cooking sources in Hong Kong. J Air Waste Manag Assoc. 2006 Aug;56(8):1091-8. b. ... more ...