Foods with high amounts of seed oils tend to be cheap unhealthy garbage. Fried fast food, sugary crap, etc. I suppose these health concerns are a simple matter of correlation vs causation.
Gotta protect those precious greasy canola seed dollars, right? Seriously, does anyone even believe this?? I'm guessing High Fructose Corn Syrup doesn't cause diabetes either... As soon as some health investigator has a look at one of their profitable products, a squad of "scientists" rush to the scene to officially deboink the myth that it gives you heart disease. What a joke. And a sad one at that.
Universities publishing media summaries of work done by their faculty is extremely common. If you want details, you are expected to click through and read the real thing.
"Hey look at this neat thing one of faculty did" is not some nefarious thing.
In my experience, in all of academia, Harvard dietary research is the shoddiest and the most biased, given their historical strong ties to Seventh Day Adventists which are notoriously pro-vegetarianism and pro-veganism.
Dietary science is as rigorous as astrology, and then there's commercial and religious interests to consider. The same institute can post research showing how a particular diet is better against another, and months later, publish the exact opposite. Given it's all tantamount to bullshit, N=1 anecdotes have greater validity than anything that's posted in press releases.
Wikipedia suffers from the same bias problem in dietary matters. It still defines low carb as a "fad", for heaven's sake.
(LOL at flagging OP's comment - what's going on these days that anything slightly disagreeing with the hivemind is worth being shadow-banned?)
Anyone who believes this- have the same product- popcorn- dip- wrap or whatever- in a seed oil variety and a non seed oil variety. Test it yourself. I feel incredibly sluggish and irritable after seed oil additives.
It's not that seed oils are inherently bad, it is the industrial processing that makes them bad for you. If you are fine with consuming trace amounts of hexane then go for it. I will stick with olive and avocado oil.
A recent study shown trace hexane in most French milk because we feed a lot of our livestock with de-oiled soy which is the other side of the extraction process.
The same traces are found in de-cafeined coffee and many d’avoir extracts.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 38.5 ms ] thread"Hey look at this neat thing one of faculty did" is not some nefarious thing.
Dietary science is as rigorous as astrology, and then there's commercial and religious interests to consider. The same institute can post research showing how a particular diet is better against another, and months later, publish the exact opposite. Given it's all tantamount to bullshit, N=1 anecdotes have greater validity than anything that's posted in press releases.
Wikipedia suffers from the same bias problem in dietary matters. It still defines low carb as a "fad", for heaven's sake.
(LOL at flagging OP's comment - what's going on these days that anything slightly disagreeing with the hivemind is worth being shadow-banned?)
The same traces are found in de-cafeined coffee and many d’avoir extracts.