#SeedOils #RFKJr

"Seed oils — a type of processed oil found in packaged food and used for deep-frying — have come under fire, with the secretary of health and human services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posting on X that Americans are being 'unknowingly poisoned.'

Wellness influencers have joined in, decrying them as the 'hateful eight': specifically, canola, corn, cottonseed, soybean, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran oils.

The real story is a bit more complicated. 'They're not poison, but we're poisoning ourselves with everything else that's ultra-processed and processed that may be cooked in seed oils,' Julia Zumpano, registered dietitian with the Center for Human Nutrition at the Cleveland Clinic, tells PEOPLE."

https://people.com/seed-oils-poision-rfk-says-dietitian-tells-truth-11747402

Are #seedoils really bad for you?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250530-are-seed-oils-really-bad-for-you?ocid=global_future_rss

Are seed oils really bad for you?

Seed oils like canola and sunflower oil have attracted controversial claims about harmful effects in recent times.

Is there any truth to them?

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250531-are-seed-oils-really-bad-for-you?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SeedOils #Health #Omega6 #Omega3 #Hexane #Canola #Corn #Cottonseed #Grapeseed #Soy #RiceBran #Sunflower #Safflower #AntiInflammatory #LinoleicAcid #Cholesterol #CardiovascularDisease #Diabetes

#tariffs #SeedOils

"But olive oil may soon cost more—potentially a lot more. Donald Trump’s 'reciprocal' tariffs, which he delayed by 90 days yesterday, are coming for the country’s liquid gold. You know what is mostly insulated from the president’s proposed plan? Seed oils. Consider vegetable oil, the most ubiquitous of seed oils: No matter what brand you buy, it’s likely made from American-grown soybeans. 'If the goal is to get people away from the seed oil, well, these tariffs are going to drive people into the arms of the seed oils,' William Clifton Ridley, an agricultural-economics professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told me. Seed oils, maligned by both the crunchy left and the MAHA right, may get their revenge."

https://www.aol.com/revenge-seed-oils-120000813.html

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Our children deserve better… - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mJV6qnsF48

#FDA #SeedOils #Infant #Formula #Breast #Milk #RFKJr #Toxic

Harvard study finds seed oils healthier than butter – The Western Producer

https://www.producer.com/news/harvard-study-finds-seed-oils-healthier-than-butter/

#HackerNews #HarvardStudy #SeedOils #HealthierThanButter #NutritionResearch #FoodScience

RFK Jr. has said Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and has called for fast-food restaurants to return to using beef tallow, or rendered animal fat, in their fryers instead‼️ 🤯 #BeefTallow #SeedOils #Health #FastFood #RFKJr

Kennedy and influencers bash s...

Scammers keep targetting people in my life with: :antiverified: "seed oils are bad"
Here's the reality check: :verified: "it's palm oil that is bad, according to the actual research"

Review study finds Palm Oil is unhealthier than alternatives: "Palm oil consumption results in higher LDL cholesterol than do vegetable oils low in saturated fat and higher HDL cholesterol than do trans fat-containing oils in humans. The effects of palm oil on blood lipids are as expected on the basis of its high saturated fat content, which supports the reduction in palm oil use by replacement with vegetable oils low in saturated and trans fat. " [1]

and if they think driving species to extinction and releasing huge amounts of CO2 is unwise, you can show them http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/21/great-green-macaw-ara-ambiguus/ and https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211025-palm-oil-the-everyday-ingredient-that-harms-the-climate

Edit: forgot the link to the first quote! It's [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25995283/

#palmOil #seedOils #howTo

Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists

https://apnews.com/article/seed-oil-beef-tallow-kennedy-4fdf0f30134277fd6dd20b4ede789295?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

#nutrition #SeedOils #health

Another Sarah Todd piece on #seedoils:

Are they bad for you? Why is the #MAHA movement obsessed with them? And is beef tallow actually a good alternative?

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/are-seed-oils-bad-for-you-examining-science-behind-claims-maha-movement-rfk/

#health #healthcare #medicine #chronicdisease #food #diet

RFK Jr. says seed oils, like canola or soybean, are "toxic" but nutrition
experts say the reality is more complex. A nutritionist looks at the science
behind these common cooking oils:
https://theconversation.com/seed-oils-are-toxic-says-robert-f-kennedy-jr-but-its-not-so-simple-246494
#nutrition #seedoils

#SeedOils

"There is quite a process to get oil out of seeds. And it's more challenging than pressing the oil from the flesh of olives or avocados. A common solvent that manufacturers use to separate the liquid fat from the rest of the seed is a compound called hexane. It's also used for the production of natural extracts, drugs and nutraceuticals, according to a 2022 article on the topic in the journal Foods.

Hexane can be toxic if inhaled as a gas. In fact, it's a component of gasoline emissions. As a liquid solvent, however, it is evaporated off (without deteriorating nutrients) after doing its job to extract oil from seeds. Any trace amounts that may be present in seed oil has been determined to be 'toxicologically insignificant' by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry."

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-02-dietitian-seed-oils.html

Why is there a big anti- #seedoils movement in the USA at the moment?
Are they as bad as they say?
Well... yes and no.
To extract oils from seeds needs a chemical reaction.
Chemical reaction rate increases with increased temperature.
However, if the temperature is too high, it affects the quality of the oil produced.
The USA is more concerned with profits than quality, so they are more inclined to use higher temperatures to increase yield, and maximise profits.
Other countries - not so much.

@sciencefeedback Thanks! I personally have been trying to disabuse a family of the "seed oils are the root of all evil"; hopefully they will take https://science.feedback.org/review/no-study-didnt-find-seed-oils-fuel-explosion-colon-cancers-young-people/ seriously.

Appreciate the tool!

#seedOils #seedOil #health #evidenceBasedMedicine #food

What #MAHA’s crusade against #seedoils reveals about flaws in #America’s #foodsystem

https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/are-seed-oils-bad-for-you-examining-science-behind-claims-maha-movement-rfk/

A hypothetical scenario behind the anti seed oil movement is that the proponents are being bought off by various #lobbies. This would be seen if the profit margins of non seed oils is higher than seed oils.

Some examples of a non seed oil come from the #dairy industry and it seems in general that the global market size of dairy is many folds greater than for seed oils. Additionally, it seems like the dairy industry gets also many folds more subsidies than the seed oils industry. These both statements would confirm the original #hypothesis.

Though if in return the #subsidies
for the seed oils industry would increase, therefore providing the dairy industry with cheaper material, then it would create an increased profit margin. Thus questioning the original hypothesis if it is financially driven.

Alternatively, one could still explain it away as financially driven with the idea of having money now over having potentially more money tomorrow.

#ThoughtExperiment #LifeStyle #health #SeedOils #AntiSeedMovement

RFK Jr. says seed oils, like canola or soybean, are "toxic" but nutrition experts say the reality is more complex. A nutritionist looks at the science behind these common cooking oils: https://theconversation.com/seed-oils-are-toxic-says-robert-f-kennedy-jr-but-its-not-so-simple-246494 #nutrition #seedoils

#SeedOils

"Overall, the drastic way in which omega-6 fatty acids have entered the food supply and fundamentally changed our biological composition makes this an important area of study. But the question of whether seed oils are good or bad is not black and white. There is no basis to conclude that Americans would be healthier if we started frying everything in beef tallow again, but there is an argument for a more careful consideration of the nuance surrounding these oils and their potential effects."

https://theconversation.com/seed-oils-are-toxic-says-robert-f-kennedy-jr-but-its-not-so-simple-246494

No, study didn’t find that #seedoils fuel “explosion of #coloncancers in #youngpeople”

https://science.feedback.org/review/no-study-didnt-find-seed-oils-fuel-explosion-colon-cancers-young-people/