The Seed Oil Debate Is Complicated

Here are some facts I want everyone to think about when it comes to the seed oil debate. In terms of steelmanning both sides. Healthy user bias, okay? Until recently, people using seed oils also smoked less, exercised more, and ate more vegetables. Okay, that's hard to adjust away. Okay, they ate more fruits and vegetables, they smoke less, they exercise more, the same people that also used seed oils. That is going to throw the data off greatly, okay? Also, it's observational, it's not proof. Cohorts show correlation. They cannot establish that the oil caused the outcome. And the other thing I'll say is you have two sides where sometimes the studies don't agree. In the Minnesota Coronary and the Sydney Diet Heart studies, they showed no benefit and signs of harm swapping saturated fat for linoleic acid. So there are lots of flaws potentially in the studies