Modern Food Controversies! The Food Pyramid, Seed Oils, Corn Syrup, the 'F' in FDA, Processed Foods and More!

seed oil does not kill people. Never has, never will.
It has, it does and it will.

Seed oils and sugar are some of the biggest killers in the modern world.


Oh, and they help cause Alzheimers:
damage to the eyes
damage to the immune system
Being hyperbolic about the maybe two-digit micromorts is not going to convince anyone actually thinking about it. Your feelings, no matter how well grounded in fact, remain statistically irrelevant. The problem for the masses is the pileup of mild chronic health problems along the way that are almost never the cause of death and rarely a discernable comorbidity.

It's gotten away with because it isn't poisoning, it's "just" bad food. When almost all of the food is bad, you get a medley of minor issues stacking up healthcare costs like crazy and making large swaths of the population miserable. You're obsessing over the personal extremes of third and fourth order effects when it's the first and second order causing a terrible "base load" on wider society's support systems that matter.

People don't care about one in tens if not hundreds of thousands getting a heart attack from the one thing. They care about double-digit percentages of their healthcare costs and insurance premiums from hundreds of things causing dozens of conditions.
"Just bad food" is literally the leading cause of death in the United States:
 
I expect heating it will make increase the lethality. After boiling the oil then you typically pour it from the battlements onto the invading force.
Well now that's kinda cheating on the 'lethality' point; boiling water does nearly the same thing, just without being flammable.
 
Seed oils and sugar are some of the biggest killers in the modern world.

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This chart does not show what they are claiming it shows.
However, it may not be the amount of dietary fat that causes obesity but rather the type of fat. And if American dietary trends are any indication, it's not saturated fat, beef fat, or heavy cream that's causing obesity, it's vegetable oils

Indeed, this chart shows a direct correlation with the amount consumed affecting obesity rates, not simply where the fat comes from. If it were about where the fat came from then you'd see the others going down at the same rate vegetable oil consumption was going up and still see obesity rates going up.

When you only need 1800 calories to maintain the same weight and you're taking in an extra 450 on top of that in comparison to what you'd be eating in 1960... yeah, no shit you're going to gain weight.

But they failed even earlier than that!
  • There is no tribe, population, or nation that has started consuming vegetable oils and not seen obesity rates climb.
There is no tribe, population, or nation that hasn't started consuming vegetable oils. Period. You can swap out "vegetable oils" with water and have it be exactly the same amount of correct.

But let's see about other correlations that can be made, mm?
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Now then, let's see which nations top the charts in obesity rates...
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It looks like there's a correlation here, now let's do the same with vegetable oil.
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Oh hey, look at that: no correlation with obesity. If there was, China and Croatia would be the fattest countries in the world and it wouldn't even be close.

So take your psuedo science garbage and shove it.
 
Correcting this chart, though the conclusion is the same the data is slightly different:
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As one can see here, India and China both consume more vegetable oils than the USA... and all three countries primarily use soybean oil.

Turkey, meanwhile, is quite far down on this list and... they still have a lot of obesity, higher than both China and India and on par with the USA, which lines up with food consumption.
 
There is another issue with American soybean oil and that is that it all comes from genetically modified crops and we do not ferment it like East Asian countries do.
 
There is another issue with American soybean oil and that is that it all comes from genetically modified crops and we do not ferment it like East Asian countries do.
GMOs are good, will always be good, and have literally never shown to be bad ever. Healthwise anyway, the morality of allowing a company to patent a genetic sequence remains to be seen.
 
This chart does not show what they are claiming it shows.


Indeed, this chart shows a direct correlation with the amount consumed affecting obesity rates, not simply where the fat comes from. If it were about where the fat came from then you'd see the others going down at the same rate vegetable oil consumption was going up and still see obesity rates going up.

When you only need 1800 calories to maintain the same weight and you're taking in an extra 450 on top of that in comparison to what you'd be eating in 1960... yeah, no shit you're going to gain weight.

But they failed even earlier than that!

There is no tribe, population, or nation that hasn't started consuming vegetable oils. Period. You can swap out "vegetable oils" with water and have it be exactly the same amount of correct.

But let's see about other correlations that can be made, mm?
YWMxNzA0NDAwZGU


Now then, let's see which nations top the charts in obesity rates...
MDIyKS5wbmc


It looks like there's a correlation here, now let's do the same with vegetable oil.
c3Zn


Oh hey, look at that: no correlation with obesity. If there was, China and Croatia would be the fattest countries in the world and it wouldn't even be close.

So take your psuedo science garbage and shove it.
You have no fucking clue what you are talking about, do you?

For starters, where things come from also has to do with the amount consumed. You know what has vegetable fat in it? Processed foods. Which are deliberately designed to promote hunger and thus obesity. And vegetable fat itself increases overall consumption of calories due to the way it interacts with organism.
In other words, when you consume linoleic acid (typically from seed oils), some of it is converted into arachidonic acid, which leads to the production of endocannabinoids 2-AG and AEA. These endocannabinoids stimulate our appetite and ultimately, may cause you to eat more.
And Croatians are in fact extremely obese. We ARE one of the fattest countries in the world, so what the fuck are you going on about?
 
You have no fucking clue what you are talking about, do you?

For starters, where things come from also has to do with the amount consumed. You know what has vegetable fat in it? Processed foods. Which are deliberately designed to promote hunger and thus obesity. And vegetable fat itself increases overall consumption of calories due to the way it interacts with organism.

As for fast food making you hungry? That isn't the result of seed oils, that's the result of it lacking nutrients, fiber, and above all... having a lot of fast digesting carbs that, upon digestion, cause a spike in insulin which sharply drops your blood sugar which causes hunger signals.

And Croatians are in fact extremely obese. We ARE one of the fattest countries in the world, so what the fuck are you going on about?
You missed the second, corrected, graph and had a reading comprehension failure the same as I did on the other didn't you?

The graph I said in reference to that was not vegetable oil consumption, just vegetables.
 
As for fast food making you hungry? That isn't the result of seed oils, that's the result of it lacking nutrients, fiber, and above all... having a lot of fast digesting carbs that, upon digestion, cause a spike in insulin which sharply drops your blood sugar which causes hunger signals.
I never said it is a result of only seed oils.

But fact remains that seed oils are toxic, for multiple reasons. Biggest one is how they are made.

Just look at the production process of, say, sunflower oil [1, 2, 3]:
  • drying seeds using heat treatment methods
  • frying seeds
  • mechanical extraction
    • pressurizing seeds to extract oil
    • this is it for virgin sunflower oil
  • chemical extraction
    • hexane is poured over the leftower cake
    • hexane is then removed
  • refinement of crude oil
    • degumming
    • alkali neutralization
    • bleaching
    • dewaxing
    • deodorization
Heat treatment, frying and chemical extraction all result in production of toxic, including cancerogenic, elements in the oil even if the oil in the seeds did not originally have them.

But in general, each step of processing food - any food - results in loss of nutrients, reduction of quality in food and creation of toxic compounds. Yes, even cooking. If you can, you should eat your food raw. Even meat, assuming you have your own animals and know they are healthy (which unfortunately is not an option for vast majority of population).

Fast food is however extra bad because it combined literally all bad things about modern diet:
  • high amount of carbohydrates
  • extreme levels of processing
  • high quantities of processed nutrients (e.g. seed oil)
  • combines carbohydrates with fat
  • high caloric density
  • low nutrient density
You missed the second, corrected, graph and had a reading comprehension failure the same as I did on the other didn't you?
No, I have not missed it. It is just irrelevant.

BTW, India happens to be one of the least healthy countries in the world... they aren't fat because they don't have much food, but their vegan diet is playing merry hell with them:
 
I never said it is a result of only seed oils.
You just implied it so heavily that it's the only reasonable conclusion for what you said.
Heat treatment, frying and chemical extraction all result in production of toxic, including cancerogenic, elements in the oil even if the oil in the seeds did not originally have them.
There is not and has never been proof of this. You can assert it as true as much as you want, it just isn't.
 
I don't use seed oils and instead prefer tallow and lard out of preference as more natural, but it is just that a preference of health attitudes the less processed foods in one's diet the better your health will be in most cases in my opinion.

That being said I think the difference between China, India, and the U.S. in oil intake might also be down to a lack of physical activities, I am not saying Americans are lazy people, just that people in the more densely packed Asia tend to walk and bike commute far more often than their U.S. counterparts, that and longer working hours, less food to buy because of lower wages
That is false, GMO's are considered a potential food allergen to a number of people.
I think that conversation deserves its own particular thread as GMO discussion is a lot more nuanced and goes into debates over patent law and the moral quandaries of what a company should or should not be able to own and for how long.
 

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