Washington Examiner
Over the last 125 years, our consumption of these oils, extracted from soybeans, peanuts, sunflowers, safflower, and other seeds and beans, has multiplied more than any other food source. Between 1909 and 1999, Americans’ intake of soybean oil alone increased more than a thousand-fold. Today, linoleic acid, the main fatty acid in seed oils, is responsible for up to 8-10% of our total caloric intake, up from near zero just over a century ago.
That rise has far-reaching health implications that have often been downplayed or dismissed by some of our nation’s foremost nutrition experts. To turn the page on our chronic disease crisis, the new administration should initiate a thorough, science-based review of seed oils. This effort could include the Food and Drug Administration’s reexamination of its “generally recognized as safe” status, a process that would fall within RFK Jr.’s purview if Senate-confirmed. More
Whether they turn out to be healthy or unhealthy upon close examination, it is about time that that close examination takes place.
Trump did a damn good job defending RFK today. Slapped some bitches that needed slapping. Who would have imagined that two years ago. I’m pretty big into nutrition and there’s not one thing controversial about anything RFK has said. The weight lifting community has been avoiding seed oils for at least ten years.
More power to you, RFK. Now go after the people who want us to eat bugs.
What Bad_Brad said. We use EVOO for raw consumption (salad dressing etc.) and avocado oil for cooking. And butter. Got to have a little butter. My wife watches this guy on youtube, Dr. Eric Berg DC. He’s good some good advice, and he’s not afraid to make changes based on new information.
Even more alarming is the fact that farmers have recently started using Diquat, a contact weed killer and Glyphosate, a systemic weed in order to dry down the crop to make it easier to harvest.
In the past, this was allowed to be done to crops used ONLY for seed.
What this means is that these chemicals are being put into the food supply indiscriminately.