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Everyone calling seed oil sceptics a cult is defending a cooking oil that has to be deodorised before anyone will eat it.
You're defending something humans managed two million years without, until a soap company put it in the kitchen in 1911.
Something that can't leave the seed without a petrol solvent, or look like food without bleach.
Something that leaves the refinery carrying trans fat and a carcinogen Europe now caps in baby formula.
Something that has more than doubled in our diet, and more than doubled in our body fat.
Over the same century, the heart attack went from a medical curiosity to the world's biggest killer.
Since 1990 alone, diabetes has quadrupled and obesity has doubled.
And a liver disease nobody had even named in 1980 now turns up in a third of adults.
You're defending the raw material for the body's own cannabis, the munchies chemical, in the middle of an obesity crisis.
A fat that breaks down inside your fat cells into an aldehyde that stops them listening to insulin.
A fat whose breakdown products climb as the liver gets worse.
A fat that goes rancid inside cholesterol particles until the artery wall turns them into plaque.
A fat that stays in your body for two years, so you're still paying for it long after the receipt's gone.
You're defending an oil that lowered cholesterol in trials and saved nobody.
An oil that was given to heart attack survivors in place of animal fat, and killed more of them than leaving them alone did.
An oil whose biggest trial, 9,000 people swapping butter for corn oil, was hidden in a basement for forty years.
And you're doing it all on the word of a heart charity built on the soap company's money.
But sure, we're the cult.
Mike
You're defending something humans managed two million years without, until a soap company put it in the kitchen in 1911.
Something that can't leave the seed without a petrol solvent, or look like food without bleach.
Something that leaves the refinery carrying trans fat and a carcinogen Europe now caps in baby formula.
Something that has more than doubled in our diet, and more than doubled in our body fat.
Over the same century, the heart attack went from a medical curiosity to the world's biggest killer.
Since 1990 alone, diabetes has quadrupled and obesity has doubled.
And a liver disease nobody had even named in 1980 now turns up in a third of adults.
You're defending the raw material for the body's own cannabis, the munchies chemical, in the middle of an obesity crisis.
A fat that breaks down inside your fat cells into an aldehyde that stops them listening to insulin.
A fat whose breakdown products climb as the liver gets worse.
A fat that goes rancid inside cholesterol particles until the artery wall turns them into plaque.
A fat that stays in your body for two years, so you're still paying for it long after the receipt's gone.
You're defending an oil that lowered cholesterol in trials and saved nobody.
An oil that was given to heart attack survivors in place of animal fat, and killed more of them than leaving them alone did.
An oil whose biggest trial, 9,000 people swapping butter for corn oil, was hidden in a basement for forty years.
And you're doing it all on the word of a heart charity built on the soap company's money.
But sure, we're the cult.
Mike
Testosterone is made from cholesterol.
Oestrogen is made from cholesterol.
Progesterone, the hormone that holds a pregnancy, is made from cholesterol.
Cortisol, the hormone that gets you through a crisis, is made from cholesterol.
Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, by sunlight, in your skin.
The bile that digests your fat is made from cholesterol.
Every cell in your body is wrapped in a membrane stiffened with cholesterol.
Every nerve is insulated with myelin packed with cholesterol.
Your brain is 2% of your body weight and holds about a quarter of your cholesterol.
Breast milk is loaded with it, because a baby's brain can't be built without it.
Most infant formula has almost none.
Pregnancy raises it by up to half, because building a human takes a lot of it.
Eat less of it and your liver simply makes more, because the body refuses to run without it.
Then, in the late 1970s, we declared war on it.
Around 8 million people in England now take a pill to lower it.
That pill raises the risk of diabetes by about a tenth.
Sperm counts have more than halved.
Men's testosterone has been sliding about 1% a year, age for age.
Antidepressant prescriptions in England have more than doubled since 2008.
And in people over 70, the lowest cholesterol tracks with dying soonest.
Reports from the front say the war is going well.
Mike
Oestrogen is made from cholesterol.
Progesterone, the hormone that holds a pregnancy, is made from cholesterol.
Cortisol, the hormone that gets you through a crisis, is made from cholesterol.
Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, by sunlight, in your skin.
The bile that digests your fat is made from cholesterol.
Every cell in your body is wrapped in a membrane stiffened with cholesterol.
Every nerve is insulated with myelin packed with cholesterol.
Your brain is 2% of your body weight and holds about a quarter of your cholesterol.
Breast milk is loaded with it, because a baby's brain can't be built without it.
Most infant formula has almost none.
Pregnancy raises it by up to half, because building a human takes a lot of it.
Eat less of it and your liver simply makes more, because the body refuses to run without it.
Then, in the late 1970s, we declared war on it.
Around 8 million people in England now take a pill to lower it.
That pill raises the risk of diabetes by about a tenth.
Sperm counts have more than halved.
Men's testosterone has been sliding about 1% a year, age for age.
Antidepressant prescriptions in England have more than doubled since 2008.
And in people over 70, the lowest cholesterol tracks with dying soonest.
Reports from the front say the war is going well.
Mike
Somewhere in the last fifty years the word extreme moved from the scalpel to the steak.
Normal:
- Removing four fifths of a 13-year-old's stomach, now on the table in American guidelines for severe obesity
- A weekly weight-loss injection for a 12-year-old, approved in America in 2022
- A cholesterol tablet from your forties for the rest of your life
- An acid blocker every morning for a decade
- Insulin before every meal
- Dialysis three times a week for kidneys worn out by diabetes
- More than 185 diabetic amputations a week in the UK
- 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day in the average American
- Cereal, a meal-deal sandwich, a pasta bake and a biscuit
Extreme:
- Steak, eggs and butter
Everything on the first list is paid for, prescribed or recommended.
The one thing on the second list is the one that would have made the first list unnecessary.
Mike
Normal:
- Removing four fifths of a 13-year-old's stomach, now on the table in American guidelines for severe obesity
- A weekly weight-loss injection for a 12-year-old, approved in America in 2022
- A cholesterol tablet from your forties for the rest of your life
- An acid blocker every morning for a decade
- Insulin before every meal
- Dialysis three times a week for kidneys worn out by diabetes
- More than 185 diabetic amputations a week in the UK
- 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day in the average American
- Cereal, a meal-deal sandwich, a pasta bake and a biscuit
Extreme:
- Steak, eggs and butter
Everything on the first list is paid for, prescribed or recommended.
The one thing on the second list is the one that would have made the first list unnecessary.
Mike
1774: they blew tobacco smoke up drowning victims' backsides to revive them, and the kits hung along the Thames like lifebuoys.
1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily tonic, and a pope pinned a gold medal on it.
1898: they sold heroin as a cough medicine, and spooned it into coughing children.
1918: they sold radium water as a health drink, and the millionaire who drank 1,400 bottles was buried in a lead-lined coffin with most of his jaw gone.
1921: they put lead in petrol, and Britain kept it in the pumps until 2000.
1930s: they X-rayed children's feet in shoe shops, and kids queued to watch their toes wiggle on the screen.
1940s: they rubbed mercury teething powder into babies' gums, and about 1 in 500 of those babies was poisoned.
1946: they sold cigarettes on the line that more doctors smoked their brand, and put a man in a white coat on the advert.
1949: they gave the lobotomy a Nobel Prize, and doctors went in through the eye socket with an ice pick.
1952: they sold a cigarette filter made of asbestos as the greatest health protection in smoking history, and smokers drew it into their lungs with every puff.
1957: they sold thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness, and around 10,000 babies were born with missing or shortened limbs.
1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat, and spread trans fat on a generation's toast.
1996: they sold OxyContin as barely addictive, and started an overdose epidemic.
1999: they sold Vioxx for sore joints, and pulled it five years later after tens of thousands of heart attacks.
2026: they're selling seed oil as the heart-healthy fat, and it's in almost every packet in your kitchen.
Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and the same total certainty.
The people telling you which fat to fear today sit in the same chairs as the ones who put radium in the water and a doctor on the cigarette packet, and they're every bit as sure.
"The experts recommend it" has the longest body count in medicine.
Mike
1863: they sold cocaine wine as a daily tonic, and a pope pinned a gold medal on it.
1898: they sold heroin as a cough medicine, and spooned it into coughing children.
1918: they sold radium water as a health drink, and the millionaire who drank 1,400 bottles was buried in a lead-lined coffin with most of his jaw gone.
1921: they put lead in petrol, and Britain kept it in the pumps until 2000.
1930s: they X-rayed children's feet in shoe shops, and kids queued to watch their toes wiggle on the screen.
1940s: they rubbed mercury teething powder into babies' gums, and about 1 in 500 of those babies was poisoned.
1946: they sold cigarettes on the line that more doctors smoked their brand, and put a man in a white coat on the advert.
1949: they gave the lobotomy a Nobel Prize, and doctors went in through the eye socket with an ice pick.
1952: they sold a cigarette filter made of asbestos as the greatest health protection in smoking history, and smokers drew it into their lungs with every puff.
1957: they sold thalidomide to pregnant women for morning sickness, and around 10,000 babies were born with missing or shortened limbs.
1960s: they sold margarine as the heart-healthy fat, and spread trans fat on a generation's toast.
1996: they sold OxyContin as barely addictive, and started an overdose epidemic.
1999: they sold Vioxx for sore joints, and pulled it five years later after tens of thousands of heart attacks.
2026: they're selling seed oil as the heart-healthy fat, and it's in almost every packet in your kitchen.
Every one of these came with an expert's blessing and the same total certainty.
The people telling you which fat to fear today sit in the same chairs as the ones who put radium in the water and a doctor on the cigarette packet, and they're every bit as sure.
"The experts recommend it" has the longest body count in medicine.
Mike
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