Is canola oil really bad for you?

[paulrenk]

I just read an e-mail that canola oil is a genetically altered form of the toxic rapeseed and is responsible for a litany of health hazards. Has anyone seen any reliable information that this is true? Or is this just one of those outrageous e-mail myths?

[Mary Ann]

Just a myth...

An excerpt from snopes.com

Origins: What we have here is a bit of truth about a product's family history worked into a hysterical screed against the product itself. There is no earthly reason to give any credence to this rumor -- Canola oil is not the horrifying product this widely-disseminated e-mail makes it out to be, nor has the FDA turned loose on the American public a health scourge worthy of being named one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse....

for more info www.snopes2.com/toxins/canola.htm (http://www.snopes2.com/toxins/canola.htm)