Death by Vegetable Oil: What the Studies Say
8th January 2023
“Vegetable oils” in this context refer to oils extracted from seeds, grains, and legumes, and include soybean oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, canola oil, peanut oil, rice bran oil, grape seed oil, and cottonseed oil.
You will note the one ‘vegetable oil’ not mentioned: Olive oil.
Vegetable oils, while nearly nonexistent a hundred years ago, now account for 20% of Americans’ calories and have made their way into nearly every packaged food and restaurant meal we eat, from oat milk, tortilla chips, margarine, and mayonnaise to Subway’s breads, Domino’s pizza crust, and Chipotle’s rice
So: Don’t eat any of these, and you’re good.
Consuming vegetable oil increases your risk of death more than physical inactivity and heavy drinking, and for all the attention that red meat and sodium get, eating vegetable oil is 12 to 20 times more deadly.
Moral: Eat meat. Not too much. Mostly cow.
NOTE: This article demonstrates the rotten core of modern medicine–all of these studies are statistical correlations that are then assumed to indicate actual medical causation. One of the most basic principles of modern science (actual science, not what Dr Fauci peddles) is that CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. Now, certainly there is no causation without correlation; but the opposite is not true. Any study that depends on statistical correlations IS NOT SCIENCE. It is opinion, nothing more, nothing less. Unless a doctor can describe to you the actually physical, chemical process whereby Y results from X, it is just an opinion; it is NOT SCIENCE. Actual science works every time–not 67% of the time , not 85% of the time, not 98% of the time–it works 100% of the time. That’s what makes it SCIENCE. Just because numbers are involved (and statistics can provide you with some very persuasive numbers) doesn’t make it science. You have to be able to follow the actual physical process, and that process has to lead to the same result every time it’s tried.
Don’t get fooled by ‘studies’. Insist on Actual Science.
January 8th, 2023 at 17:34
I’m certainly no expert, but I scanned the Nobbs article. I think it’s wrong, but not because of “studies.” It does NOT fit with what I’ve read elsewhere in what i think reliable sources. First of all, he claims wrongly that sugar consumption has declined. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Merely google “U.S. sugar consumption per year” and tell me the graph is decreasing.
I hold with those who say that sugar and its evil twin corn syrup are probably the worst things in the diet. They are found as additives in virtually all processed food. Actually, the worst is fructose. Simple carbs aren’t much better.
Nobbs is right — partly about vegetable oil. It’s not that all oil is bad, but some are better than others. What is missing, both from his article and most diets, are the Omega 3 fatty acids which are mainly from oily fish. The body needs the common “seed” oils (Omega 6) but also the animal Omega 3.
Oh, and by the way, I couldn’t tell if Dyspepsia was joking or not about “Eat more meat” but actually saturated fat is not nearly the wicked substance it is made out to be.
None of the above is (or should be) highly controversial, and it can be found by doing some reading about nutrition.
January 9th, 2023 at 12:31
I never joke about meat.