i genuinely don't get the whole seed oil thing. like what is a bad seed oil?

is avocado oil a seed oil? sesame seed oil? there can't be a blanket generalization that any of these oils are bad

“Bad” is lots of LA 
easier to just demonize everything

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is the reduction in LA from butter worth the saturated fat cardiovasicular disease risk?

also i thought palm oil was bad lmao

They don’t believe that research, rly https://x.com/trikomes/status/1858922182031929749

https://x.com/TheWarKitchen/status/1640798261094256640 (pt 2)

palm oil is bad imo. I don’t even know what to say lol

People want studies to prove seed oils are bad, but somehow we never did studies to show they are good before adopting them en masse?

Correct.

The studies "showing" seed oils are "good" are almost uniformly showing nothing more than a drop in LDL-C from replacing saturated fats with PUFAs, without actually demonstrating any benefit for mortality, etc.

Not only do those studies typically fail to show that a… https://t.co/X45dBDcO0U

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If you understand EVERYTHING in this list, you’re ahead of 99% of the population: 

1. Apart from coconut milk, every other plant-based milk is a sham. It’s just inflammatory seed oil juice. 

2. We’ve all been sold a lie. Saturated fat found in butter and red meat doesn’t cause…

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For decades, orthodox health advice has been to minimize saturated intake &amp; focus on eating "heart healthy" omega-6 polyunsaturated fats (seed oils).

What happens when people do that?

They die more often, despite the high PUFA / low SFA group having lower cholesterol levels. https://t.co/x9tHo1yMMW

https://x.com/trikomes/status/1843700408004579593

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