Vegetable oils were brought into our lives in about 1910 when the processing of them became cheap. Make no mistake, these oils are a food technology that should never have been.

I have a rule of thumb; if the oil comes from something that is not obviously oily then don’t eat it, ever.

Canola, soybean, corn oil, cottonseed, safflower, margarines, often hydrogenated, sunflower, see a comprehensive list.

Olives, avocados and coconuts are all fruits and obviously oily. So that’s two reasons why they escape my rule and are therefore not something you need to avoid.

The Only Real “Life-Hack”

So if I had one hack to offer it’d be this — fall in love with doing instead of the idea of doing.