re: This is a good this is a good article on seed oils It has corporate greed, AMA, and ….

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Avocado

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Yep, love it.

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butter

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Even better. I use it almost exclusively. Since getting away from those shitty seed oils, what I thought was maybe arthritis turned out to be inflammation from that shite in my diet.

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accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.

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accident, yea lets go with accident.

This is a good summary of the "Big Fat Surprise" argument. The history of how the AHA got its funding is definitely worth looking into, as it shows how corporate sponsorship can shift public health narratives for decades. Even if you don't think seed oils are "toxic," it’s hard to deny that the transition from butter to hydrogenated fats was a massive, unplanned experiment on the public.

Very well done, sir.

I use Canola oil to make my rouxs for gumbo. Can I use lard instead? Never tried it.

Problem with these articles, and people like the OP that chose a side with zero critical thinking or due diligence, is that they get very basic facts wrong, like the difference between partial and full hydrogenation.

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Procter & Gamble's response: Quietly reformulate without admission of error. Remove hydrogenation, keep selling seed oils, never acknowledge that their "heart-healthy" product spent seven decades actively causing the disease it claimed to prevent.

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Well except P&G did no such thing in their reformulation, they divested themselves of Crisco and Jif well over 20 years ago. J.M. Smucker reformulated Crisco in 2007 and today uses soybean oil, fully hydrogenated palm oil, and palm oil. Full hydrogenation introduces little to no transfats, partial hydrogenation introduces a lot of transfats.

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These oils oxidise rapidly when heated.

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Some do, some do not. Many are extremely resistant to oxidation, like Crisco, which I have used to season my cast iron.

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They're rich in omega-6 fatty acids that promote inflammation. They've never existed in human diets at current consumption levels.

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Eggs are rich in Omega-6 too. So are a lot of nuts that were/are a major portion of the diets of humans in antiquity so that assertion is pretty much all bullshite.

As for inflammation:
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But they're cheap. Profitable. And the food industry has spent a century convincing everyone they're healthy. The alternative, admitting that industrial textile waste shouldn't have been turned into food, would require acknowledging the last 110 years of dietary advice was fundamentally corrupted from the start.

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Like the demand for oils and fats didn't outstrip supply due to burgeoning population and industrialization. Demand outstripped supply and that's what drove efforts into the processes that turned waste into something useful. Which is the case for any number of things we use today, for better or worse.

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Your great-grandmother cooked with lard because that's what humans used for millennia. Then Procter & Gamble needed to sell soap alternatives and accidentally created the largest dietary change in human history.

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She also cooked everthing in a big copper pot lined with leaded tin. I know because that copper pot is still in my family and I had it professionally re-tinned (with pure tin) over 10 years ago and the shop that did the work said it still had some of the original lining that had a lot of lead in it. Thankfully it never was used to cook with in my lifetime and is still only a decorative piece of top of the pot rack.

I never cook with oil. I just pour a little bit of water in the pan or bake stuff in the oven

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If you feel like you need a PhD Nutritionist to give you a much further detailed history of how dark it really is, then here’s your source, you can read the whole book. LINK

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Another good book on this subject is Ultra Processed People.

Really opened my eyes to how shitty our food supply has tainted.

Here’s the problem. Most people hear that crisco is bad and think that means bacon fat and butter is good. That’s bad logic.

There is indisputable evidence that high cholesterol causes heart disease. Like very clear studies of people with mutations that cause high cholesterol regardless of diet (they get severe heart disease) and people with mutations that cause low cholesterol (they have no heart disease)

Or studies of remote tribes who have LDL cholesterol levels of like 30 and they have very little heart disease.

Bacon fat and butter increase cholesterol

Food companies and our politicians that allowed them to poison us should be jailed. And our doctors have been right there with them. Telling us to cut salt, which is totally stupid and backward. Don’t eat eggs. Completely wrong.

I’ve know about how Crisco came about for a long time now. It was also a… machine lubricant before the AHA was bribed into telling us it was healthy.

And to this day, people still think lard is bad. It’s not. They think bacon is bad for you. It’s not. It’s the crap they put in it. People think eggs are bad. They’re not. They’re damn near the perfect food for you.

People think eggs cause cholesterol. They don’t. It is IMPOSSIBLE to ingest cholesterol. It’s your bodies reaction to inflammation. Cut the things that are inflammatory. Like seed oils. And eat more natural fats. They’re the least inflammatory food we eat.

You want to know what not to eat? Think marshmallows at a campfire. That how sugar reacts with your body.