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217. How to lose weight

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The Rise of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in the United States

The amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids we're eating has massively increased since the 1950s. Since 1960, our daily calories of vegetable oils have gone from 289 give or take to 699 calories a day. Excess calories can affect signaling pathways in the differentiation of fat cells that can make you hungrier at the level of your brain and cannabinoid receptors. Have we really done enough research in the medical sphere looking at the way these polyuns saturated fatty acids might negatively be affecting our thyroid hormones?

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