[rce]

Why? My understanding of the argument against seed oils is that they have a high omega 6 to omega 3 ratio, which does not align with historical intake and leads to inflammation. While I'm not a nutritionist, this seems like a perfectly reasonable argument

[guyzero]

Americans eat 12.51 million metric tons of it a year, so it is clearly not exactly poisonous. And "inflammation" is very vague... most people would be better off just increasing their dietary fiber intake and not worry about swapping one fat for another. It doesn't require thousands of people with no education in the area creating social media content about it.

[jacamera]

This is the first time I've heard anyone argue that a food product must be good for you because Americans are consuming a large amount of it. How on earth could you come to that conclusion given how unhealthy our population is?

[guyzero]

"good for you" and "not meaningfully harmful" are different things. Please don't move the goalpost.

[seec]

Americans are not the healthiest population on average so if anything, it proves the reverse point that you are trying to make...

Also, fiber advice is complete nonsense. There are now plenty of studies showing that fiber causes more problems, especially for people who get easily constipated.

The fiber bullshit comes precisely from bad science, that is directed by wants and political opinions, especially those of women in that case.

Fiber advice has come around because for some reason, it was thought that defecating more often is better and women like to "work" on their transit because of them wanting to look as fin as possible at all times. So, they make you eat very low energy (and nutriments) food to make you shit more often, just because.

[relaxing]

What the fuck is inflammation? That wasn’t part of my 9th grade health class, outside of getting a sprained ankle. How is it suddenly a well known health crisis?

[orwin]

Inflammation is a bodily response to stimuli. Foods that are said to increase inflammation (like GP said, including seed oil) i avoid when some specific pollens are out. People under chemo or any kind of long term medical treatment should avoid it too, but honestly nobody should get out of their way to avoid oil because of their omega6 to omega3 ratio. Idem for polyinsaturated vs saturated (avoid saturated, but do not go out of your way to do it).

Burning point of oil/fat however is a data which is extremely important when you cook, and you should avoid frying food with oil at a low burning point. If you want to use a specific oil for the taste, use first an oil without taste and a high burning point, then after the vegetables are cooked, add your unrefined sesame oil and sear for like 10 second maximum while mixing everything.

[jmye]

Omega 3 vs 6 and inflammation has nothing to do with it being a culture war topic or the tabula rasa GP described. Odd, soap-boxy response.

It’s also a straightforward thing to test for, assuming you can define “inflammation” without weird woo-pseudoscience.