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[–] 19 points 13 hours ago (14 children)
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    Many seed oils are toxic to consume. Okay oils being avacado, coconut, and olive. Coconut looks to have many health benefits too

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    No. Don't listen to influencers for food science. Seed oils are not "toxic" like you say. In fact, if you hear someone describing food as "toxic" you can almost guarantee they are a quack.

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  • [–] 21 points 13 hours ago* (8 children)

    nothing. many countries' nutritional guidelines recommend consuming sunflower oil, because it's high-oleic.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago* (2 children)

    Ignore nutritional "guidelines" - look at the nonsensical food pyramid, which even a diabetes doc from 1930 would call bullshit.

    What's largely important with oils is the Omega 3,9,6 balance.

    There are other considerations after that (GLA/ALA), but it's a good place to start.

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  • [–] 18 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

    Where I live we use sunflower oil because sunflowers are growing here while, let's say, olives -- don't. I suppose Italians would use olive oil as a default variant.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

    Olives aren't a seed oil though

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    That's the other thing that is never mentioned in these food debates, people from a place with a given genetics that have adapted to eating specific locally available foods can do poorly eating what is considered healthy elsewhere

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    And it’s not just genetics that are local. Gut microbes matter a ton for how you digest food, and it’s determined by where you live and what you eat. The immune system matters too, this is why travelers diarrhea is a thing. And that is also diet dependent: one who doesn’t regularly eat seafood will easily catch viral gastrointestinal infections from eating clams for example.
    So there is no single global “healthy diet” for everyone, you got to start from what’s available locally and what your people eat, and tweak that as necessary.

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    That depends on who you ask. Some people say they contain excessive omega-6 acids, linolenic acid, vitamin E, and other stuff that negatively affects insulin absorption and contributes to inflammation in the body.

    Others claim they're a super food, they make fried food good for you, and you shouldn't use anything else. These people are usually regurgitating dumb/useless things they heard on a trendy cooking channel.

    The truth, of course, is likely somewhere in the middle.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    I mean omega-3, 6, linolenic acid and vitamin E vary wildly between different seeds' oils so I'm sure as an informed consumer one can just leave that flame war alone and figure out by themself that the aforementioned criticism is true for sunflower oils for example but rapeseed oil has a fantastic fatty acid composition and is great for cooking while linseed oil is even better but not really suited for cooking and should instead be limited to cold dishes. To blanket "seed oils" as bad for cooking is just braindead.

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