You’ve been lied to. For decades, a sophisticated propaganda machine, dressed in the white coat of science, has been steering you away from nature’s most wholesome foods and toward industrial creations that are making you sick.
This isn’t a conspiracy theory. This is a stark reality check from one of Ghana’s and Africa’s most respected pathologists and former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa.
In a blistering critique, Prof. Akosa pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest public health swindles of our time: the war on tropical oils.
The Natural vs. The Industrial Creation
Listen to his simple, undeniable logic:
“This is an industrial creation. It’s not natural. You don’t boil corn and get oil on top. But you boil what? You boil palm oil, palm, and you get oil on top. You boil coconut… and the coconut oil just seeps down. This is natural.”
There it is. The fundamental difference. For generations, our ancestors used oils that nature freely gave—oils that could be extracted with simple heat and pressure. Palm oil, coconut oil, and palm kernel oil are whole foods.
Then came the industrial age. The Western world decided it couldn’t rely on “tropical oils.” So, they engineered their own. They took seeds like corn, sunflower, and rapeseed (canola) and, through complex chemical and industrial processes, created oils that never existed in nature in such concentrated forms.
The Propaganda Machine and the “Hook, Line, and Sinker”
But how do you convince the world to abandon traditional, natural foods for your new industrial products? You run a campaign of fear.
“But somehow, once they got into the industrial oils, they started propaganda telling us tropical oils are bad. And all of us are scientists and researchers. We just swallowed it, hook, line, and sinker.”
We, the educated, the “enlightened,” fell for it. We replaced our golden, red palm oil and rich coconut oil with bottles of “heart-healthy” vegetable oils, believing we were making a smarter choice. We were the perfect marks in a global bait-and-switch.
The Devastating Biological Consequence
This isn’t just about tradition; it’s about cellular biology. Prof. Akosa delivers the knockout punch by explaining what these industrial oils are doing to your body at a fundamental level.
Your cell membranes—the protective barrier of every single cell in your body—are made from the fats you eat. Natural, stable fats like those in tropical oils create strong, impermeable membranes.
But when you consume unstable, processed vegetable oils (what he calls “essential oils” from seeds), they create weak, dysfunctional cell membranes. Your body, in its innate wisdom, detects this damage. What is its repair material? Cholesterol.
“If you eat vegetable oil, your cholesterol goes up because the vegetable oils need to add up to cholesterol before they can repair your cell membranes. So anybody who eats corn oil, sunflower, all those canola… if your cholesterol is high you know why it is high.”
Let that sink in. The very oils marketed as “heart-healthy” are forcing your body to produce more cholesterol in a desperate attempt to patch up the damage they cause. And then, as Prof. Akosa starkly points out, “Big Pharma is there, they will provide statins for your high cholesterol.” The system is perfectly designed to create the problem and then sell you the “solution.”
The Path Forward
Prof. Akosa doesn’t just diagnose the problem; he lives the solution.
“And today, you can’t even get coconut oil. But coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil… Fantastic. If you’re gonna eat it, eat it. I eat it. All right?… Because as far as I’m concerned, naturally, that is what nature intended.”
The message is clear: Return to what is natural. Reject the industrial creations and their supporting propaganda. Embrace the wholesome, nutrient-dense oils that have sustained generations before us.
The evidence is no longer hidden. The Framingham Report and other foundational studies are now being exposed for their biases, “dotted to favor the test.” The truth is emerging.
The question is, will you continue to believe the multi-billion dollar marketing of the food and pharmaceutical industries, or will you listen to the simple, powerful truth from a renowned pathologist who has nothing to sell you but your own health?
The choice is on your plate.
