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Seed Oils Are the Biggest Diet Experiment in History. Nobody Agreed to It.

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The full story

In the last hundred years, the soybean oil in our food went up more than a thousand times over. The linoleic acid from these oils, the part that builds up in your body, has more than doubled in our diet and now makes up over twice as much of our body fat as it did in 1960. Nobody voted for that. It happened quietly, because the oil was cheap.

And look what rode alongside it: obesity, diabetes, and metabolic disease, straight up.

The government says relax, seed oils are heart healthy. But look closer. Heat them in a fryer and they throw off toxic compounds that butter and tallow do not. In animal studies, soybean oil caused more obesity and worse liver damage than coconut oil, and worse than sugar. The only randomized human trials that actually tested it found more deaths, not fewer. And the advice to keep eating them comes from a committee where 95 percent of the members were tied to food or drug companies, leaning on cholesterol as a stand-in for a benefit their own best evidence says was never there.

We are not saying the case is closed. We are saying it was never honestly opened. This is a demand for the one thing that never happened: a real, independent, conflict-free investigation into what a century of seed oils has done to us, before we get told to eat even more.

What we are asking for

The receipts

We are honest about the debate. Some large population studies link these oils to lower death rates. We think those studies are tangled up with people quitting smoking and trans fat at the same time, and that the randomized trials, the only kind that can isolate the effect, point the other way. That is exactly why this needs an honest, independent investigation instead of more confident advice.

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