Vegetable Oils

Appears in
Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2011

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This includes basic vegetable oil – which isn’t made from vegetables at all! – as well as peanut, canola, sunflower, safflower, soybean, and corn oils.
Each of the No foods has its own unique properties that put it on that infamous list. Generally, these foods are excluded because they either produce blood sugar spikes, cause systemic inflammation, or both. Yes, some are so bad they both wreak havoc on your insulin levels and fire up your immune system. We very strongly dislike them. (We’re looking at you, grains.)