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Like vitamin C to fix everything that goes wrong on long sea voyages, or removing lead and mercury from diets, avoiding alcohol and thalidomide during pregnancy
by like_any_other 2y ago
Like vitamin C to fix everything that goes wrong on long sea voyages, or removing lead and mercury from diets, avoiding alcohol and thalidomide during pregnancy, abstaining from cigarettes, removing cocaine from Coca Cola, or any number of other additives that are perhaps less clear cut: https://time.com/7210717/food-additives-us-fda-banned-europe/ https://time.com/7210717/food-additives-us-fda-banned-europe...
Avoiding poison is a "quick, easy fix" to the consequences of that poison (or the opposite in the case of vitamin deficiency). Whether there's any reason to believe seed oils are harmful, I have no clue, but the idea that we could be en-masse consuming something harmful has dozens of precedents.
- ceejayoz 2y agoThose mostly each fix one specific thing with a clear mechanism. Seed oil theorists will tell you they cause... a lot more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation > The theme of the misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver spots.
- like_any_other 2y agoVitamin C theorists would also have told you it cured the common cold, cardiovascular disease, cancer, HIV, and ameliorated the effects of chemotherapy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#History_of_large_dose_therapies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_C#History_of_large_dos...
- guyzero 2y agoI do not think it takes a decade-long longitudinal study to conclude that seed oils are not mercury or thalidomide.
- dzhiurgis 2y ago"I do not think" is precisely when you need a study...