It's mostly bullshit.
Eat a balanced diet and stop stressing about specifics. Eat meat sparingly. Don't drink at all and it'll make a bigger difference in your life than seed oils. Drink in moderation if you can't handle that. Have fruits and veggies daily, as fresh as you can get them. Walk a few miles a day.
All the basic easy stuff is the most effective. There are no tricks, shortcuts or gotchas.
Drinking is a big thing, in a lot of ways. If you need to not be sober, try edibles instead.
They're higher in inflammatory fats (most seed oils are predominantly composed of omega-6 polyunsaturated fats/inflammatory fats). While our bodies do need some inflammatory and anti-inflammatory fats (sort of like we need Cholesterol) we do not need too much. Calling them toxic is a step too far, but all foods should be consumed in moderation.
this is my understanding, it's not that they're bad, but that they are in everything.
Yep, that's the main problem with all the buzzword substances that diet culture is obsessed with: fat, salt, carbs, etc... All of those are fine in moderation, but the problem is that the processed garbage that the average person eats for lunch contains a RIDICULOUS amount of those things.
Not sugar, though. Sugar is just bad for you, full stop. 😆
Yes, just as sugar is good for you, but only in the right proportion.
Nothing wrong with them, but a lot of "alternative medicine" special interest groups wants you to believe there is, as evidenced by a lot of the links uncritically posted in this very thread alone.
A EXTREMELY helpful article, with scientific references covering the entire issue much better then I did below: https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/vegetable-oils
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The main issue is oxidative stress caused by Omega-6 fatty acids. Omega-3 are anti-oxidants and reduce stress. The ratio of o3/o6 is helpful in seeing how it can impact your body.
There is a small, but growing, body of research linking consumption of seed oils with metabolic problems (diabetes)
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For people who are concerned about oxidative stress, they tend to cook food in fats, and avoid seed oil issues all together. Olive oil is a good seed oil, but getting a unadulterated pure source is problematic.
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It depends on the seed - canola oil is known as rapeseed oil here in the UK and is good for you.
What you want to avoid are ultra-processed foods that tend to be high in sugar, salt and bad fats.
They often relabel rapeseed oil as "canola" or even "vegetable" oil, but it still is strong flavoured and unhealthy to consume.
Canola oil is known to be bad for you here in Australia, and olive oil thought to be more healthy.
It depends on how processed it is but, by and large, it's a pretty healthy oil.
https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/death-by-vegetable-oil-what-the-studies-say
I found this post immensely helpful in describing the science behind the health effects of seed oils. But it remains to be said that saturated fat doesn't seem like the best thing for you either. I use the mostly unsaturated oil olive oil nowadays.
isnt olive oil much more pricey
It wasn't too bad before in my opinion but this year there was a big drought in the Mediterranean and now it's extremely expensive. Even butter is cheaper than olive oil now I'm afraid... I just try to use less of it. Speaking of butter there are now a few big studies out there showing that milk fat is not as bad as the saturated fats found in meat. But they are all funded by dairy companies so I don't know if I can really trust them. It's hard navigating the world of fats and health. Fats are good for you but it's hard to know which ones are the good ones.
