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Just listened to a Revisionist History episode that called out the harms of over-consumption of linoleic acid. Apparently the shift away from animal and towards
by tomlagier 5y ago
Just listened to a Revisionist History episode that called out the harms of over-consumption of linoleic acid. Apparently the shift away from animal and towards vegetable oils in the '70s and '80s caused a lot of adverse health effects because we now consume multiples of the amount of linoleic acid that we did in previous generations.
Podcast: https://blog.simonsays.ai/the-basement-tapes-with-malcolm-gladwell-s2-e10-revisionist-history-podcast-transcript-d764d0472079 https://blog.simonsays.ai/the-basement-tapes-with-malcolm-gl...
(Somewhat biased, but still a good summary of the research) article on linoleic acid: https://theecologist.org/2014/feb/24/linoleic-acid-overwhelming-evidence-against-healthy-poly-unsaturated-oil https://theecologist.org/2014/feb/24/linoleic-acid-overwhelm...