Are Hemp, Flax And Olive Oil Good For Us? Should We Try To Include Them In Our Diet?

our hemp flax and olive oil’s good for us to eat should we try to include these oils in our diet or should we try to avoid them

oh this is a good question too so so hemp olive and flax oils I think these oils are wonderful but they’re the best when they come from the whole foods because when they come from the whole foods these oils come packaged with fiber and phytochemicals and plant sterols and stanols and all of these beneficial components so to me extracting oils from foods pouring them on to our foods is not as helpful as using the whole foods for example I make hemp seed dressing all the time for my salad I use hemp seeds so I get not just the omega-3s and the wonderful fats that are there in the hemp seeds I get the protein I get the fiber I get them trace minerals you don’t get that from the oils and so that’s you know and it depends there some people that can afford those extra calories but what we have to remember is that those extra calories are 120 calories a tablespoon and they don’t have any you know they don’t have the same kind of satiety value as when they come with the fiber so my you know if you’re an athlete and you’re burning 5,000 calories a day you’re getting a ton of nutrients you might be able to afford a little bit of that you’re diabetic who’s overweight who’s trying to reverse insulin resistance you don’t have room for highly processed foods oils are fairly highly processed foods just like white flour is it said to me oils are to the sort of fat world as sugars and refined carbohydrates are to the carbohydrate world we want as much as possible to be getting our fat and our carbohydrate and our protein from whole foods and so I I’d say eat your flax seeds eat your hemp seeds eat your olives and with some caution with the olives because they can be very salty but it’s it’s just you’re getting so much more value for your calorie when you think about nutrient density the foods that have the lowest nutrient density of all are well pure sugar is at the bottom of the barrel and close behind is is pure oil because there just is not a lot of nutritional value left

now I believe that the oil if it’s a fresh pressed high-quality oil I think there’s more redeeming value to that oil than there is to the sugar because the sugar there’s nothing there with the oil you actually help to enhance the absorption of fat soluble phytochemicals and vitamins like vitamin D and vitamin E and so forth and carotenoids and such and there’s a little bit of vitamin e there and when it’s fresh pressed you may get some phytochemicals remaining in in olive oil for example and in flaxseed oil and so there are some components that provide some advantage so if I were to have to choose a little bit of one of the other I don’t think either is poison I think I think in small quantities as part of a whole food diet in very tiny amounts as a flavor they could have some you know use but I wouldn’t use them as a food I’d use them as a flavor in the tiniest amount possible and for myself I used very very either very very rarely I have sugar in my house I use it to feed hummingbirds otherwise I use fruits for my sweeteners I use either whole fruits or dried fruits and I dry my own you know pears in the summer in the fall really it’s it’s usually boat fall when they come around and I use dates and and because we get fiber and vitamins and minerals and it makes more sense to use those as our sweeteners and in our treats