The evidence for starches and sugars as causes of obesity is pretty well established now (sadly, not as widely recognised as I’d like).

Similarly, seed oils are recognised as causing chronic inflammation. Not as well understood is the role of seed oils causing obesity. In this article I describe the temporal, geographic, animal, and mechanistic data and how they point to industrial seed oils as under-recognised drivers of obesity.

It’s not often I read about the pros and cons of meat-based vs plant-based diets in a major newspaper. This was a good one

Did you know that an editorial recently published in the British Medical Journal has called for the UN to think about ultra-processed food in the same was as it does tobacco? This follows a review of how ultra-processed food affected the health of almost 10 million people.

This paper describes a pathway through which a well-known toxic metabolite from seed oils may have caused my heart disease. We’re still only just beginning to understand how industrially processed ingredients in our food may cause malnutrition.

The main ingredient in seed oils is called linoleic acid. It is harmful to our body because it damages our immune system. Its effects on our liver are so dramatic that linoleic can act alone to cause liver disease progression all the way to liver cancer.

When I was diagnosed with heart disease despite following contemporary nutrition guidelines and my doctor’s advice for years I decided to change my lifestyle. That included eliminating two major food ingredients, namely seed oils and simple carbohydrates. In this post I describe why I eliminated seed oils and how they likely contributed to my disease.