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Which diet book?

Hating on seed oils is really popular on social media right now even though PUFAs improve human health outcomes when substituted for SFAs.

https://www.the-nutrivore.com/post/a-comprehensive-rebuttal-...

You can measure the linoleic acid in body tissue samples (don't even need to track dietary intake) and it doesn't correlate with worse health outcomes. LA veterans study is a good example of that.

The seed oil scare is the MSG scare of the 2020s: a social media meme that people passively take up through repetition.



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