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The actual science of the "industrial seed oil" panic (E14)

The Adam Ragusea Podcast

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Seed Oil Industry Buying Scientists

Before the 19 sixties, a sugar industry group paid harvard scientists to produce research that blamed fats for america's rising heart disease problems. Saturated and unsaturated fats both have massively powerful industries behind them. Beef has a tonnis saturated fat. They used to fry the fries at macdonald's in beef tallow but they switched to seed oils because science said seed oils are better than beef fat.

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