The Standard American Diet

We're consuming more linoleic acid than ever before because of vegetable oils, ultra processed foods and the like. The processing of those into purified oils happened during the 20th century when we increased our intake. I think there's some controversy about that because there's a lot of... If you look at heart disease rates starting in the 1960s down until now, we've probably cut it in half. We certainly have not cut our omega-6 intake in half. Not at all.