A naked man,in Mooroopna – a town 181km north of Melbourne, Australia, as a prank got into a washing Machine , got stuck in it and it took 20 minutes to release him from the top-loading device.
The rescuers had to use Olive Oil to dislodge him from the machine.
People use different cooking oil/medium in India.
The Cooking Oils generally used are Ground nut oil,Coconut Oil Sesame oil(Til Oil, Nallennai),Rapeseed oil and of late Olive Oil.
Traditionally in the South Groundnut Oil and Sesame Oil are used.
While Ground nut Oil is used for frying Vegetables, Sesame oil is used for seasoning.
But Sesame Oil is used for every cooking activity among Brahmin house holds, Ground nut oil is used by the other communities.
Sesame oil is also used taking Oil bath by all the communities in the South.
In Kerala people use more of Coconut Oil,West Bengal,Orissa,Assam and the North East use more of Rapeseed Oil.
Sesame Oil is used for Medicinal purposes as well for almost all illnesses starting from mouth Ulcers.
Of late Olive Oil has come into India, priced high , promoted very heavily , is becoming popular
I hold the view that the art of cooking has evolved over centuries by our ancestors by trial and error taking into consideration the availability,Environment and taste.
I have tried all the Oils in all the places where I have lived and travelled.
I have found that what is used and found good for me in one place is not conducive to my health in the other place.
For example when I used Rapeseed oil in Calcutta It was agreeable to me.
But when I used it in Chennai/Bangalore it did not agree with me.
The same is the case with Wheat products.
I can use Chapati, Nan etc when I am in North India and if I use it in South India it does not agree with me as much as Rice.
Now one finds the widespread use North Indian dishes in the South and the availability of the South is becoming optional.
The entry of the South Indian foods in the North is not as much as the North Indian Foods food in the South.
But the landscape there is also changing.
Compounded to this is the use of Olive Oil, which is essentially meant for Mediterranean Climate in a tropical Country like India.
I am not sure how the interchange or change of food culture is good for Health.
I am of the view that food developed for a region is best for health.
Related:
http://nutrition.org.uk/attachments/113_Culinary%20oils%20and%20their%20health%20effects.pdf
I have been maintaining that Cholesterol and heart attack are not connected.Please read my blogs under health.
So is fried food and heart attack.
The Corporations and Pharma companies would make you make you believe in any thing, such is the power of media. especially TV Commercials.
One should watch the ad of Cardia Olive Oil in India on TV, where the setting and the voice over are so sombre in warning you of heart attack by using oils other than Cardia Olive Oil, you would rush to Doctor to check your heart!
Icing on the cake is the statement that people in Europe do not suffer heart attack by using olive Oil
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IT IS a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil.
They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain – where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used – and the incidence of serious heart disease.
However, the British Heart Foundation warns not to “reach for the frying pan” yet, pointing out that the Mediterranean diet as a whole was healthier than ours.
Spanish researchers followed more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of whom were women, from the mid 1990s to 2004.
At the outset they asked them how often they ate fried foods, either at home or while out. They then looked to see whether eating fried foods regularly increased the likelihood of falling ill from having coronary heart disease, such as a heart attack or angina requiring surgery.
Dividing participants into four groups, from lowest fried food intake to highest, they found no significant difference in heart disease.
There were 606 incidents linked to heart disease in total, but they were split relatively evenly between the four groups.
The authors concluded: “In a Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no association was observed between fried food consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease or death.”
http://www.independent.ie/health/health-news/fried-food-heart-risk-a-myth-2999009.html
Please read my blog on ‘How does aeroplane fly’ to know how the so called Science misleads us.
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