Paul Saladino· MD
the fumes from cooking oils seed oils are consistently associated with Cancers I mentioned that Benzene which is a known carcinogen is found in significant amounts three parts per million and there's a significant amount of literature from Asia to show that exposure to cooking fumes is associated with both cervical cancer and other cancers environmental exposure to cooking oil fumes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasm you can see if you read the abstract that those women who were exposed to cooking oil fumes without hoods had a dose response corresponding increase in cervical cancers here here you can see characteristics of non-methane hydrocarbons and Benzene series emission from commonly cooking oil fumes these authors clearly show that soybean oil peanut oil and a blend oil had significant amounts of benzene toine and other aromatic compounds which are associated with Cancers when you cook with these oils furthermore this is from an IC monograph that is the International Association for research on cancer monograph in this IC monograph on page 389 you will see they say they found a three-fold increased risk for lung cancer with a moderate to high category of exposure greater than 150 total dish years and an eight-fold increase risk with the highest category greater than 200 total dish years of exposure to cooking fumes from high temperature frying that is high temperature frying of seed oils with these aerosolized compounds that have been associated with both cervical Cancers and lung cancers so for anyone to say that there is no clear data that seed oils are associated with cancer I would say say yes I can understand why you feel that way but in terms of the fumes coming off the seed oils there is a major concern here and most people using seed oils are cooking with seed oils