Wafflehouse: Anyone here ever work there?

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It will also give you coronary artery disease as fast as lard will

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well, thats not totally true. Meat fat doesn't cause artery disease..study in 1997 disproved this but everyone still believes its true. They showed how there was NO evidence of saturated fats in clogged arteries, its the trans-fats that are killing us.

The canola oils, etc that are processed and change the saturated fats to trans-fat are bad as hell for you. The organic or cold-pressed canola oils that aren't processed aren't.

Of course I have no clue where/how the palm oil for wafflehouse is prepared. I'm sure its as bad or wosrse than you say.

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Palm Oil Is A Healthful Product Which Does Not Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk

In the past, palm oil was attacked as "saturated" since it contains 44% palmitic acid and 5% stearic acid, and thereby allegedly raises blood cholesterol and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease. However, a sizeable and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that palm oil's effect on blood cholesterol is relatively neutral when compared to other fats and oils. In a recent review article, Professor Charles Elson concluded "palm oil, an essential fatty acid-sufficient tropical oil, raises plasma cholesterol only when an excess of dietary cholesterol is presented in the diet."

A number of pre-1990 human feeding studies reported that palm oil diets resulted in lower serum cholesterol levels then pre-study values. Indeed, five distinguished American scientists concluded that these studies, although "not specifically designed to study palm oil, have revealed that a palm oil diet lowered plasma cholesterol compared with the starting periods during which the subjects were eating their habitual Western diets." These conclusions were questioned because the studies were not designed to measure the effects of palm oil. But subsequent studies, specifically designed to evaluate palm oil, confirmed that palm oil's impact on serum lipid and lipoprotein profiles compares favorably to corn oil, lightly hydrogenated soybean oil, and olive oil.

Thus, palm oil's impact on serum lipids is more like a monounsaturated than a saturated oil. A recent study comparing the effect of palm olein and olive oil enriched diets on twenty-one healthy, free-living normocholosterolemic subjects found no difference in total and LDL-cholesterol levels. There appears to be several explanations. Palm oil contains a high percentage of monounsaturates (40%). Palm oil's saturated fatty acids are palmitic (44%) and stearic (5%), which do not appear to elevate blood cholesterol in people with cholesterol levels within normal ranges. Recent animal studies found that palm oil stimulates the synthesis of protective HDL cholesterol and removal of harmful LDL cholesterol. Palm oil is rich in vitamin E, (particularly tocotrienols), which appear to reduce serum cholesterol concentrations.

It also appears that palm oil, compared to polyunsaturated oils, poses a reduced risk for cancer. This may be due to the tocotrionols in palm oil. Indeed, Professors K.K. Carroll of the Centre for Human Nutrition at the University of Western Ontario and David Kritchevsky of the Wistar Institute recently concluded that evidence indicate that tocotrienols in palm oil are effective anti-cancer agents and provide adequate justification for clinical trials in human cancer patients.

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