What are fad diets and why do people follow them?
I'm very firmly in the camp of people who think seed oils are bad for you.
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And thank you for the support. All right, back to Skeptical Sunday. Okay, so this is probably a totally different Skeptical Sunday in itself, but I've heard about the seed oil thing. And so seed oils are what stuff like sunflower oil, canola oil. I don't even know what that is because canola is not a thing, right? Vegetable oil, basically anything, but there's a couple exceptions.
Olive oil and what, coconut oil? So it's a whole thing, right? What's the logic? It's that in nature, you'd never get this much of that seed in one place unless you were just like... OCD collecting those particular seeds and squeezing them. It's just not a natural amount of that oil that you could get in your system. So we're not evolved to deal with it. Is that the logic there?
It's not so much that, though I think that's like not a bad place to start thinking about it. A lot of the stuff is used in industrial processing originally, which again is so what? That doesn't make it bad for you. But yeah, I mean, it's kind of not a bad place to enter that. Vice President J.D. Vance will not eat seed oils and neither will I. My girlfriend is Jewish.
She picked up a thing of vegetable oil to cook with. And I told her I was as opposed to this as she would be if I brought lard into our house. So what did she do? Did she respond well to that? She put it back and got coconut oil just to like explain to her, do not bring this home. There's a lot of stuff I think is gross, but like seed oils, like, no, do not bring seed oils into our home.
Yikes. I probably eat so much of these. So what is the reasoning behind the seed oil thing? I had my swing and a miss at the guess that it was just you're getting too much of one thing that you normally wouldn't get. But what's the other reason?
Look, that may be it, but I'm always skeptical when the basis for something is like, it's not natural. We haven't evolved to eat this. It's like, this is ridiculous. The problem with seed oils, as I understand it, is that there are endocrine disruptors, at least when they're heated, which means it messes up your hormonal system. And do I think that's like the thing that makes Americans so fat?
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