Episode 30 transcript
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Abbie: Welcome to your daily bread with co hosts, Abbie Stasior and Hannah Calhoun. We're here to be your weekly source of spiritual nourishment, guiding you to find food freedom in a deeper connection with Christ.
Hannah: As we explore the intersection of faith and nutrition, these bite sized episodes will help you heal your relationship with food and your body through practical advice, biblical wisdom, and heartfelt encouragement.
Abbie: And as a disclaimer, we are not pastors, but passionate registered dietitians and sisters in Christ, offering our insights to support you on this faith filled journey to a healthier, more fulfilling life. Join us by taking a seat at our table as we break bread and allow God in to break the chains of diet culture.
Abbie: Hello everyone today we are going to be discussing oil and our episode is To anoint your head with seed oils. So we're going to be reading from Psalm 23, which is my favorite song. So Psalm 23 verse five says you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows, surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life.
And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I love so good. So good. Uh, so Hannah and I get this question a lot. Like, is it okay to consume oil? Is it okay to eat fat? Will eating fat, make me fat? A lot of our, You know, patients and clients have a very strong food fear around this macronutrient and, um, diet culture wants you to be fearful of that.
Um, God does not want us to be fearful of anything and we need all of the macronutrients in our diet. So we pray that this episode will plant a seed, a seed of healing, um, in terms of your relationship with food. It's also important to know that. In Jewish tradition, olive oil symbolizes the divine presence that this is, this is God.
And olive oil is the main element of anointing. And that's why in this context, it's Psalm 23. It's saying you anoint my head with oil. My cup overflows, you know, from, from that place. Um, it was used in Royal sacraments, uh, sacrament of baptism. Um, it's just the olive tree and it's olive oil, um, has an essential place in the church, especially in like the fourth century.
So it's a part of our tradition. It's not something to shy away from, and it's actually something to embrace. So if you are someone right now that is very fearful of eating fat, consuming oils, because you think, Oh, if I eat fat, I'm going to get fat. I really hope that. Um, kind of the scales will be lifted from your eyes and you'll start to see that this isn't something to fear, but actually oil is very sacred and holy.
And what if you could approach eating and using oil in this way, in a way that is holy and sacred and looping God in to this eating experience and being able to trust, like, this is, this is healing. for this is healing for my body. This is connecting me with God. When I consume oil, even I've even had, um, patients and clients start to give themselves like an oil massage and connect with their bodies, but you have to help with body positivity and these sorts of things.
Like this symbolizes divine presence. You're in the presence of God. Well, we're always in the presence of God, but, um, you could be more intentional and acknowledging God's presence through the consumption of oil. And that could be extremely healing for you and your relationship with food.
Hannah: 100 percent and just a, you know, myth buster, like no particular food or nutrient alone.
Will quote unquote make you fat, so I think it was very much a thing a couple decades ago Like don't have fat, fat will make you fat. That's not true Um, so it's not like one particular Macronutrient or food itself alone will quote unquote make you fat Um, just like no particular food item will make you healthy, you know what I mean?
So it's not that black and white Um, and like Abby was saying, all of the macronutrients are so important. And God designed us in a particular way, where some of the nutrients that we consume are water soluble, so absorbed better with water, and some are fat soluble, so they're absorbed better when consumed with fat.
So if you're having a salad and it has, you know, carrots and all these different things in it, And you're skimping out on the dressing because you don't want to have fat. Um, Sorry to say, your body will not be absorbing the fat soluble nutrients. Some of the fat soluble vitamins are vitamin E, D, A, and K, and those are super important.
for our body. A lot of us are vitamin D deficient. Um, so hello me. Yeah. And I live in Miami, so, um, don't skimp out on, on, on fat. Um, you know, God designed us this way that we need water. We need fat. We need carbs. We need protein. Like We, we need it all, and he designed us as a beautiful, a beautiful puzzle that, um, works so well with the food that he has provided for us, that has the nutrients that our body needs, and so, when we are trying to be our own god, and, You know, say, well, I need this and I need that, like, we, we just have to pray for wisdom and trust God and his design.
Um, you know, Abby talked about olive oil and, and right now there is a, a lot of people are okay with olive oil, I think, but there's a lot of controversy around seed oils and everybody wants to talk about inflammation. And I think the biggest thing is to educate yourself on the composition of oils. Of course we know, like, saturated fats are not very heart healthy and different oils have different ratios of saturated fat to unsaturated fat.
You know, we can't, it's kind of like, Sodium like you can't totally avoid sodium. You can never have like zero sodium in your whole day And that's a good thing because we need it right and we can never have zero saturated fat It's not the heart healthiest fat in the world but it's still gonna aid in you know, helping us absorb the fat soluble nutrients and Dietary fat is so important for our hormone function and, you know, our, and, and cognitive function as well, and no matter the source, like, it's going to have that beneficial effect on, like, your hormones and absorbing those fat soluble nutrients, um, ideally you want to have more unsaturated fat.
in your day and in your life than saturated fat, but that doesn't mean we have to be scared of it. Um, so educating, yeah, educating yourself, looking up like, the composition of dietary fats and kind of like maybe picking the one that has less saturated fat. A lot of people get scared of like omega 6 versus omega 3 versus omega 9, and this might be like really complicated for some people who have never heard this before, Omega 3 fatty acids are in like salmon and, you know, they're really, they're really good for you and they're heart healthy and they, they're very good for like the brain and everything.
Um, you can't totally evade, evade omega 6s. And Omega nines and that's fine. That's fine.
Abbie: You know, you need that, you know, like if you, you need an inflammatory response now, we don't want always systemic inflammation, right? There's a point where it's too much information to buy, but you need the ability to have an inflammatory response.
Like what if you get a cut paper cut? You need your body to be like, Oh, something's wrong. We need to send our nutrients and our resources to that area. And things do get a little inflamed, but that's part of the healing process. I just sprained my ankle last week at a church event. I love, um, I need a hedge of protection people.
So, um, I was actually happy that my ankle swelled up a little bit, like, yeah, it was painful, but I was happy that my body was like, Ooh, we need to send nutrients to this area. So that was, a positive inflammatory response. So our body needs to be able to do that. So we can't rid ourselves of all Omega sixes and Omega nines and these, um, more inflammatory fats.
We need a combination of both. Um, and also there was a huge craze around coconut oil back in the day. Which wasn't that long ago, um, where everyone was like, you know, literally anointing their whole bodies with breakfast, lunch, dinner with coconut oil. Coconut oil has one of the highest percentages of saturated fats, one of the most inflammatory oils.
Hannah: Ninety one percent. Coconut oil is 91 percent saturated. When the heck did we get the idea that this was, like, the healthiest oil? Also, I put it on my skin back in, like, 2012, and it gave me acne, people. Same! Same here!
Abbie: Yes, it made me break out because it was, like, so sugary, and, yeah. So, y'all, come on. We can't believe everything that we read on online, um, but that doesn't mean that we need to completely avoid coconut oil, either.
Like, I just think it's a both and, and I really think it's, A little health elitist, uh, it's giving pharisee, it's giving legalistic to think like we, you know, to be condemning people or judging others for not purchasing and prioritizing the most expensive, um, anti inflammatory oils like avocado oil or olive oil.
I, not everyone can afford that. And it's not dishonoring to God by eating and consuming seed oils. That doesn't mean that you're not stewarding your body well by consuming these things. You know, we talked about this in the raw milk episode. You're not a better or worse Christian because you consume seed oils.
Hannah: Mm hmm.
Abbie: Yeah,
Hannah: a hundred percent a hundred percent and if you do have the time and the money and you really really care You can look up the comparison and the ratio of the different fats within particular oils No seed oils are exactly alike Black seed oil is lovely. You know, it has a lot of omega three fatty acids.
It has a really low percentage of saturated fat and that's a seed oil, you know, so, you know, no one is, is alike. And if you really care, you really want to educate yourself. You can look it up. Um, and I think too, we, we really can't be. We can't really be ignorant because at the end of the day, if you're cooking with oil and you're buying this super heart healthy, like, expensive, unsaturated oil, and it has a really low smoke point and you're cooking with high heat, guess what?
It's gonna become hydrogenated. So it's no longer, like, you might as well have just used the regular old, like, vegetable oil or whatever. Um, Because now it's no longer super heart healthy. So you want to look, if you care, you want to look at the composition of the oils and you want to look at the smoke point and to see like how are you cooking with this oil and what is the smoke point.
If you're cooking with a high heat, you need something with a high smoke point. Um, and also like really people, how many, how much are we really consuming? Like, I You know, we're not consuming buckets and buckets of, of oil all the time. And so it's one of those things where, like, we can't avoid it. Like there's oil in different things and that's fine.
Like, again, it helps us absorb those fat soluble nutrients. Um, it helps us with our hormones. It helps us with our brain function. It's, that is very important. Um, You know, but to be fearful of it, that's not from God, that's not from God. And to be prideful with, well, I don't have canola oil and I don't, it's like, okay, good for you.
But don't, like, project that on other people who are maybe using, like, government assistant programs to get food and to buy groceries. Like we can't we never know someone's situation and we can't be like well you shop there and you get that and oh my gosh Do you want to die of inflammation? Like we can't be Be like that with people that's not pleasing to the lord, right?
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