I don't agree with you definition that high-caloric content equals energy density. It's easy for you to measure caloric content, but that doesn't mean it provides the body with any real extra energy. See: food coma.The problem with the seed oils in my view is as you describe. They greatly add in the production of affordable, shitty processed food with high energy density (i.e., easy to overconsume calories) and long shelf life.These seed oils only exists because of a combination of cost, flavor (maybe) and stabilization for longer shelf life. The potatoes aren’t why fries are terrible for you. The meat and cheese aren’t why a Big Mac makes you feel like shit after you eat it.What's the volume of seed oils (bad) where it matters though?Obviously jsut switching off of the seed oils when you buy fast food wouldn’t do much of anything. But they are in just about everything. Even the Trader Joe’s cashews are cooked in sunflower oil. Seed oils make you lazy and lazy makes you fat. I’ll die on this hill.
We had an opportunity 4 years ago to encourage get people healthy and instead public health decided to shut down gyms, youth sports and farmers markets and instead sent everyone to TikTok and Safeway.
Rant over. Happy it’s all finally getting some real eyeballs and more than the crazy fringes, ie the people that are healthy and in shape, are waking up..
Cashews are good for you. When prepared, bad to less good things may be involved. But they aren't the primary ingredient. What percent of the calories in a serving of those cashews would be attributed to seed oils.
Your first statement is what I think Yella's point effectively is. The existence and repeated consumption of french fries is a significantly bigger issue than the specifics of the fat used to cook said french fries.
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