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Study links soybean oil to obesity (ucr.edu)
2 points by dredmorbius 32 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


NB: Title edited from "Study links America’s favorite cooking oil to obesity" for de-baiting and brevity.


> “Soybean oil isn’t inherently evil,” Deol said. “But the quantities in which we consume it is triggering pathways our bodies didn’t evolve to handle.”

A rational response. Humans have always eaten a fair bit of omega 6. Just nowhere anywhere near _this_ much. Consumption has gone up at least 5x since the 1900s, in large part due to soybean/veg oil being in virtually every industrial food ingredient list. It's not evil, it's just everywhere and hard to avoid.




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