Cooking with vegetable oil is bad for your health

A group of leading scientists have said cooking with vegetable oils could be worse for our health than butter or even lard.

Cooking with vegetable oil is bad for your health

A group of leading scientists have said cooking with vegetable oils could be worse for our health than butter or even lard.

They found using lots of vegetable oil in cooking can lead to heart disease, some cancers and Alzheimer's.

GP Monsah Mansoori explains why the oil can be dangerous.

“Things like vegetable oil, corn oil, that sort of thing, when we do heat them to a very, very high temperatures, which you do in frying processes, we produce a lot of these chemicals called aldehyde.”

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