
How cooking-oil companies have been misleading consumers in India
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The Truth Bombs About Eating Oils in India
The belief that the cooking oils we use in our homes every day are healthy is an outcome of years and years of targeted media campaigns by oil companies. While makers have been generously throwing words like health in brand names, but they bury the caveat in the fine print. Some refined oils go through multiple purification processes that use harmful chemicals like hexane. Short term exposure to high levels of hexane causes mild central nervous system effects including dizziness, giddiness, slight nausea and headache. Chronic or long term exposure to hexane in the air is associated with polyneuropathy in humans With numbness in the extremities, muscular weakness, blurred vision, headache and fatigue. Neurotoxic
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