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One thing is for sure, if seed oil is very bad for you, it's probably got very little to with the anti seed oil armchair theorists unverifiable and therefore me
by tomxor 3y ago
One thing is for sure, if seed oil is very bad for you, it's probably got very little to with the anti seed oil armchair theorists unverifiable and therefore meaningless ideas.
I say this as an armchair theorist myself, who sticks to olive oil and butter and suspect seed oil is problematic, I'm just not very confident about it. The one nugget of wisdom this article highlights is worth repeating: stick to a variety of natural unprocessed (or minimally processed) foods as much as possible, make it the main part of your diet. For two reasons:
1. Nutrition is a very poorly understood subject, with a history of bad science, we basically know shit about nutrition as a society. For the most part, you Grandma is more likely to give you good advice about healthy eating than most government advice based on bad studies... It's getting better though, there are some decent folks out there trying to understand nutrition properly. And therefore anything we do to adulterate food is very poorly understood, but if you stick to natural foods, you have a better chance of eating healthy.
2. Capitalism's optimises food for profit, not health. This is why processed food exists, it's cheaper because it lasts longer, because cheap unpalatable ingredients can be made palatable, because throwing sugar onto everything makes it hyper palatable, which makes people over eat.
In fact that latter line of thinking made me change my mind about GM food, which I'm not fundamentally against as a concept, but the problem is the driving force behind the idea - The cost function is not human health, it's profit. This is problematic because it's possible to modify things for e.g greater yield but not necessarily for greater nutritional value, it could actually have the inverse relationship, over time this is going to work against you, it's inevitable. I also misunderstood GM to mean less need for harsh chemical pesticides, but it's all about intent again, the same people are usually trying to maximize yield so they will throw everything they can at the land.
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