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> vegetable oils are the worst type of food known to man Of course, this is wrong.
by shafyy 2y ago
> vegetable oils are the worst type of food known to man
Of course, this is wrong.
- sph 2y agoI knew I had to qualify for the pedantics. Vegetable seed oils are the worst type of food known to man, and I stand by it. The research is just a google away. Vegetable pulp oil (i.e. coconut, extra virgin olive oil, etc.) is alright, if not beneficial.
- rafaelero 2y agoAny RCT's showing it is incredibly more dangerous than butter or other vegetable oils?
- smilliken 2y agoYes, there was the Minnesota Coronary Survey which was an RCT on polyunsaturated fats vs saturated fats. It was launched intending to prove the opposite conclusion, but ended up proving that polyunsaturated fats cause significantly higher mortality rates than saturated fats. It's hard to do better than this as a study because it's an RCT that did not rely on self-reported data (it was conducted in hospitals and nursing homes), and it measured a variable that's challenging to fake and relevant to health (death).
- rafaelero 2y agoA [meta-analysis of all RCTs](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28526025/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28526025/) seems to suggest there's no real difference between these kinds of fats. Is there a particular reason you are using only one study to draw strong conclusions?
- leoedin 2y agoCan you provide some of this research that's just a google away? What do you even mean by "the worst type of food known to man"? The worst in what way?
- shafyy 2y agoSorry, but this is not me being pedantic. Many vegtable seed oils also have beneficial micronutrients. For example linseed oil has a lot of Omega-3. Sunflower oil has Vitamin E and K. "Worst type of food known to man" is a very strong statement, and surely there's a long list of foods that come before vegetable seed oils.
- piuantiderp 2y agoI'd never eat linseed oil. Lookup what it's used for historically, varnishing and what not. That rancidification and cross-linking is something you def don't want happening in your body.
- shafyy 2y agoJust because something is used for varnishing doesn't mean it's unhealthy. Can you post any serious and credible source that says linseed oil is unhealthy?
- piuantiderp 2y agoIt's trash. Unedible. You know how even in the mainstream, it is common knowledge that burnt oil is bad? Linseed doesn't even need to heat up to start reacting.
- DataDive 2y agoOpinions about food are full of excessive generalizations that are of little help. There is no logical reason to expect that seeds, in general—carrying the energy for new life, containing the most valuable and precious resources—would constitute the "worst" food ingredient known to mankind.
- piuantiderp 2y agoOf course not wrong, it was lobbyied into existence.
- shafyy 2y agoSome of the healthiest and long-living people live on diets that are high on vegetables and vegetable oils (e.g. the Mediterranean diet).
- piuantiderp 2y agoOlive oil is not a seed oil.