Did you know that eating a large serving of french fries—cooked in vegetable oil—delivers the toxicity of smoking 24 cigarettes? Talk about a public health disaster! In fact, there's a huge list of issues that seed oils have been linked to because it promotes free radical toxicity and depletes antioxidants. From weight gain to cancer development, we are finally seeing the roles that these once thought of as harmless oils are actually doing to our bodies. To dive into this topic, we invited Dr. Cate Shanahan back to the show. Dr. Cate is a Family Doc and Metabolic Health Advocate whose mission is to optimize the public's metabolic health and help people feel better and perform better than ever. She joins the show to discuss her new book, Dark Calories, where she reveals the financial entanglements between industry and underhanded academics who created and sustain our 1950s-era, arbitrary dietary rules.

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