I suspect there’s always something about trying to do this at scale that will fail. Maybe there was some insight back in the eighties when a move to less fat was good, but then like it should have been 10% less fat and not a wholesale replacement of all fats with sugar. Likewise I can’t imagine going back to Tallow for an entire population won’t have some other trade offs.
Maybe seed oils are really bad, or maybe you just shouldn’t be eating so many fried foods for the type of fat to matter all that much.
This article does somewhat go into, but I think, unless something is outright toxic like lead, nutrition science will always be plagued by the number of confounding factors.
I think the answer to all food-related questions in USA should be - just do what Europe does.
It won’t ever happen as when all this “seed oil bla bla” dust settles lobbyist will do their thing and we’ll go back to being fed poisons of different kinds
Maybe seed oils are really bad, or maybe you just shouldn’t be eating so many fried foods for the type of fat to matter all that much.
This article does somewhat go into, but I think, unless something is outright toxic like lead, nutrition science will always be plagued by the number of confounding factors.
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