Comments - Thoughts on seed oil

I am always suspicious of mono-factorial explanations of any complex phenomenon, whether it be obesity or climate change. Yet for any such phenomenon there seems to be a population of people, call them philosophical monists, who stridently insist that the sole explanation for A must be B and B alone, and that anyone who claims otherwise or cites contrary evidence is in the pocket of Big B. The term I've heard for those people is "hedgehog": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox this is cool and interesting! thank you. I think it’s important to distinguish between processed foods and *highly* processed foods. Even hunter gatherers used fire to cook meat to make it easier to chew and digest. Potatoes would kill you if eaten raw, so we cook them in all kinds of ways to make them safe, edible, and (most importantly) delicious. Avoiding foods that are processed in any way is basically a raw food diet, and I don’t think there’s any conclusive evidence that this is optimal fo

I am always suspicious of mono-factorial explanations of any complex phenomenon, whether it be obesity or climate change. Yet for any such phenomenon there seems to be a population of people, call them philosophical monists, who stridently insist that the sole explanation for A must be B and B alone, and that anyone who claims otherwise or cites contrary evidence is in the pocket of Big B. The term I've heard for those people is "hedgehog": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox this is cool and interesting! thank you. I think it’s important to distinguish between processed foo