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US politicians, right-wing conspiracy theorists and … seed oils? Fats vs fiction
US politician Robert F Kennedy Jnr believes seed oils are bad and animal fats are good. Andrew Sun makes some lard choices
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Andrew Sun has dabbled in many shades of the media spectrum for 25 years, from college radio, TV, print and online columnist to starting film festivals, managing music labels and authoring food books.
Seed oils have suddenly become the new target for anti-science health zealots and conspiracy peddlers.
One such proponent is Robert F Kennedy Jnr, incoming US president Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of health and human services.
The politician specifically mentioned such products – cooking oils like canola, corn oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, rice bran oil, and others made from the seed of plants – as something he would consider banning for their supposed harm.
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By now, most people know Kennedy for frequently making false medical claims, such as linking vaccines to autism; he also once boasted he had a brain worm. He also does not like fluoride in water. By any measure, I don’t think he’s really someone to take seriously.
His beliefs also extend to thinking seed oils can lead to mitochondrial dysfunction, obesity, and chronic tissue inflammation.
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