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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

Kudos for writing this. I don't have the time to refute all of the points but let me clear up some things. 1) There is one "seed oil theory" and it's not made up by randos on the internet, but by very real biochemists like Raymond Peat, Brad Marshall, Dr. Mercola, Kyle Mamounis and others. The theory is simple: PUFAs, especially linoleic acid, create poses a toxic risks to our system. Linoleic acid is not a danger in itself, the danger happens when it's oxydized. That's why measuring it in the blood is not a reliable marker and why we lack a good all-encompassing health marker for this.…

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