Dr. Layne Norton

I've heard this argument.

They're looking at self-reported data from people, which puts it at like 24, 2500 calories a day for Americans.

The more accurate way to look at it is you look at the food production, you look at food waste, and you look at food availability, and you can calculate approximately how many calories per capita people are consuming.

Okay, that is objective data.

That's not, well, yesterday I think I had, like, I don't even remember what I had to eat yesterday.

Like, I mean, I can look at my app and I know, but if you ask me to recall it offhand, like, God, I don't really know.

That data is over 3,500 calories a day on average per person.

And the average person gets less than 20 minutes of physical activity per day.

So yeah, I think like a big chunk of it is energy toxicity.

Now, seed oils can contribute to that for sure because even right down to like, hey, you have a salad.

What does it take for a chef just to, you know, put more oil on it?

Or, you know, if you've ever had a dish, you know, I can approximately guesstimate like how much rice is on there, but how are you going to know how much oil somebody put in?

Like, I mean, I guess it tastes a little bit slimier in your mouth, but good luck quantifying that, right?

And then I think also seed oils are probably a proxy for poor overall diet quality because they are in a lot of processed foods.

So the question to me, there's two questions.

Practically,

Are they contributing to the health crisis?

Yes.

But is it for the reason that they really anti-seed oil people claim?

And what's interesting about this anti-seed oil movement is I've noticed it's kind of popped up out of the low carb carnivore sphere.