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This was a great article and a real eye-opener! It challenged common perceptions about dietary fat and weight gain, especially at my age. The insight on different oils and their potential benefits was fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

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Thanks, Jill. Extra virgin olive oil can be useful for roasting and baking as an every day oil.

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So helpful! Thank you for sharing this Ellen. I always learn something new from you!

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So glad you found this helpful, Valerie!

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Thank you for this interesting piece! I have used extra virgin olive oil once when baking plant based Madelienes. They were wonderfully moreish. I am intrigued by your comments about walnut oil too and am going to look into that.

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Thanks, Shell. I use olive oil and canola oil quite a bit in my home baking as I try to avoid animal saturated fat...a less flaky but moist crumb and probably earthier flavor.

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Great 👍 Thank you 🙏

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Thanks for reading, Ibrahim! Hopefully, I've left you with something you can use.

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Very helpful! I've been aspiring to a whole food plant based diet. Both doctors I follow promote no oil, I believe in part b of caloric density. They promote using the whole food instead - blending the avocado for salad dressing rather than using avocado oil. It's nice to know a sprinkle of olive oil here and there is okay.

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I think it's worth probing why an umbrella prohibition of no oil and understanding the sources of fats these physicians prioritize as fats are essential as well as co-promoters of making use or absorbing other nutrients like carotenoids. What evidence do they base these prohibitions on? We can see from these trials that extra virgin olive oil supplemented in capsules in the PREDIMED trial or used market available in the Nurses and Health Prof studies promoted cardiovascular health, and the latter trials lower death with dementia rates, lower diabetes, and all-cause mortality. There is concern about the declining quality of "seed oils," but, I don't believe a blanket prohibition is a solution. Choosing cold expeller pressed oils can cut down on impurities.

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