Oil for Food: The Global Story of Edible Lipids

Pitts, Martin; Dorling, Danny; Pattie, Charles

doi:10.5195/jwsr.2007.358

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“…Bourdieu, 1984). Further details of the previous use of the technique with pottery assemblages (Pitts, 2005a(Pitts, ,b,2007aPitts and Perring, 2006) and in the study of the globalization of modern food distribution and consumption can be found elsewhere (Pitts et al, 2007). CA is related to the more popular method of principal components analysis, with the main difference being that CA is better suited to the analysis of categorical variables (e.g.…”

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Globalizing the local in Roman Britain: An anthropological approach to social change

Pitts

2008

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Globalizing the local in Roman Britain: An anthropological approach to social change

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2008

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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“…Second, the beneficial oil claimed in the Seven Countries Study was olive oil and it should be compared only to the other fats and oils that were consumed, which was mainly animal fat. Interestingly, although Japan showed very low death rates, olive oil consumption in Japan was negligible (Pitts et al, 2007). Third, this study assumed that all saturated fats have the same properties regardless of chain length.…”

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“…Based on the consumption record for the year 1961, the estimated amount of animal fat consumed in Northern and Southern Europe was 67.5% and 35.7%, respectively, while for coconut oil, it was 5.9% and 1.6%. In the US, the amount of animal fat in the diet was 51% versus 3% for coconut oil (FAOSTAT, 2006;Pitts et al, 2007). Clearly, coconut oil was an insignificant part of the diet in Europe and the US so how did coconut oil get included in the health warnings on heart disease?…”

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The Warning on Saturated Fat: From Defective Experiments to Defective Guidelines

Dayrit¹

2017

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Coconut oil has been adversely affected by the current dietary guidelines that advocate a lowering of total fat and the replacement of saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat. This recommendation has its origins in the saturated fat-cholesterol-heart disease hypothesis that Ancel Keys first proposed in 1957. This hypothesis became an official recommendation with the publication of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 1980 and has been adopted by many other countries and international agencies. The dietary recommendations also warn against coconut oil. Recently, the American Heart Association re-issued this warning in its 2017 Presidential Advisory. However, a critical review of the experiments that Keys conducted has revealed experimental errors and biases that cast serious doubt on the correctness of his hypothesis and the warnings against coconut oil. Further, the recommendation to decrease saturated fat recommendation effectively means an increase in unsaturated fat in the diet. The actual result has been an increase in omega-6 fats and a high omega-6 to omega-3 fat ratio. This unhealthy ratio has been linked to heart disease, the very disease that the AHA wants to target, as well as cancer and inflammatory diseases. Defective experiments have led to defective guidelines. This first paper in this series of papers will present these errors and biases and address the points raised by the AHA.

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“…In Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome, olive oil became the primary source of oil for cooking or use as a condiment. Nevertheless, prior to their use of olive oils, the Egyptians extracted oil largely from radishes or flax seeds, and the Mesopotamians extracted it primarily from sesame seeds [ 1 , 2 ]. Likewise, archaeological and documentary records evidenced that sesame oil competed with the olive oil in the Mediterranean basin and India from at least 1137 BC [ 3 ].…”

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Vegetable Oils as Alternative Solvents for Green Oleo-Extraction, Purification and Formulation of Food and Natural Products

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Since solvents of petroleum origin are now strictly regulated worldwide, there is a growing demand for using greener, bio-based and renewable solvents for extraction, purification and formulation of natural and food products. The ideal alternative solvents are non-volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that have high dissolving power and flash point, together with low toxicity and less environmental impact. They should be obtained from renewable resources at a reasonable price and be easy to recycle. Based on the principles of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, vegetable oils could become an ideal alternative solvent to extract compounds for purification, enrichment, or even pollution remediation. This review presents an overview of vegetable oils as solvents enriched with various bioactive compounds from natural resources, as well as the relationship between dissolving power of non-polar and polar bioactive components with the function of fatty acids and/or lipid classes in vegetable oils, and other minor components. A focus on simulation of solvent-solute interactions and a discussion of polar paradox theory propose a mechanism explaining the phenomena of dissolving polar and non-polar bioactive components in vegetable oils as green solvents with variable polarity.

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Oil for Food: The Global Story of Edible Lipids

Abstract: This paper addresses the issue of the globalization of food production and consumption in the last

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Globalizing the local in Roman Britain: An anthropological approach to social change

Globalizing the local in Roman Britain: An anthropological approach to social change

The Warning on Saturated Fat: From Defective Experiments to Defective Guidelines

Vegetable Oils as Alternative Solvents for Green Oleo-Extraction, Purification and Formulation of Food and Natural Products

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