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Are seed oils some new health trend? I keep seeing people mention them in health discussions.



There's a lot of evidence that PUFAs are obesogenic and diabetogenic. Their consumption increase broadly tracks the epidemics of both. E.g.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Soybean-Oil-Is-More-Ob...

If the effect is real it takes place over decades, gradually damaging mitochondria, making it difficult to cover with RCTs.


"A lot" is a stretch. There is some evidence in mice and a few hypothesis but I certaintly wouldn't say "a lot." The exception to this I would say is soybean oil. There is a decent amount of research pointing in direction that soybean oil isn't great.


Added oil should be kept at minimum. It doesn't matter the source. But of course this is not the main reason for the obesity epidemic; people just like to find easy culprits instead of looking at the culture around food in the US.


I believe the case against seed oils isn't about them causing obesity, but heart disease.





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