Whoa, I was nodding my head here, and then you suddenly dive into massive, unmitigated bullshit.
(To summarize what’s about to happen for interested third parties, I’m going to show that the writer uses a graph that says the reverse of what he claims it does and an anti-vax site to push a pack of lies about vegetable oils.)
Let’s go through what you wrote:
Vegetable oils were brought into our lives in about 1910
No! No! How can you say this crazy thing?!
In fact, the first discovered use of vegetable oils by humans is around 6000 BCE — that’s eight thousand years ago — and they’ve been widely used by people all over the world ever since, including Americans.
Let me repeat this — you claim that vegetable oils were brought into our lives about one hundred years old, but in fact people have been using vegetable oils globally for over eight thousand years.
These are Trumpian levels of error!
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Now, you use this first falsehood and a lone graph of butter vs margarine consumption to argue that all vegetable oils are bad.
In fact, let’s compare your graph:
to a graph of US life expectancy:
Now, you said, “At the turn of the 20th century people were still using animal fats daily and heart disease was rare. By 1950 it had become the biggest killer.”
This makes it appear as if people had become much less healthy over that time, but in fact, as the graph shows, in 1900 the life expectancy for Americans at birth was 47 years but in 1950, it was 67 years.
Look at the two pictures: the blue butter line went down, and the red life expectancy went up — by twenty years.
Twenty more years of life! What an amazing benefit!
If I bought into the reasoning that it’s what fats and oil we eat that determines how we die, I’d say, “WOW! Between 1900 and 1950, people moved to eating vegetable fats, and they gained twenty more years of life! More vegetable fats for me!”
And the reason that heart disease became so important by 1950 is that in 1900, people did not live long enough to get heart disease. The life expectancy was 47 years — that meant that most people were dead before 50 and thus had no chance to develop heart disease, because they were already in their graves.
Of course, the whole mode of argument is bogus — a million other things changed in those fifty years. But still — huge uptake of vegetable oil, twenty years more life! It doesn’t really make a good case for your “vegetable oil == death” conclusion.
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And finally, you have just a single link to prove your “all vegetable oil bad, all animal fats good” claims — and it’s a link to a meat advocacy and anti-vaccination site named the Weston A. Price Foundation started by a delusional dentist.
Here’s a quote from these guys on the treatment of disease:
In Fourfold I discuss the theory that we actually have four “bodies,” each of which participates in every inflammation and each of which is activated when we are sick. The physical or earth body becomes red, the fluid or etheric body takes on more fluid which we call swelling, the emotional body or astral body experiences a heightened sense of feeling, which we call pain, and the warmth body or mental body gets involved and raises our temperature. This activation of the four bodies is particularly acute in children because the whole process of being a child is to grow into and reshape our bodies to “fit” our individual purpose in life.
(This theory is called, humorously, Humorism. It was replaced in medicine by the germ theory of disease starting around 1850. But then, if the Weston A. Price Foundation believed in the germ theory of disease, they might believe in vaccinations too…)
Your one external source is a pack of lies. If you went to any medical site that discussed nutrition, you’d get the actual truth about vegetable oils — that some of them are not good for you, and some, like our eight thousand year friend olive oil, are very good for you.
In fact, here’s the Mayo Clinic on healthy oils, and here’s the American Heart Association.
Wow, they only mention vegetable oils. Is it a conspiracy by Big Vegetable Oil to suppress the truth? Or is it just that your article is false to the fact?
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It’s really hard for me to believe that you are this deceptive accidentally. Shame, shame, shame, shame on you for this pack of lies. Your article was bad, and you should feel bad.
