The AHA is completely and utterly full of shit and just like most major bodies pushing nutritional standards, peddles some fairly dangerous information:
Seed-oils that wouldn't, largely, exist without industrial processes creating them as a byproduct (cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil/Crisco, safflower oil, canola, etc.) are a HUGE driver of inflammation which is basically the root of every single disease - cardiac issues, cognition problems, neurological issues, autoimmune issues, cancer).
And there's a lot of theory supporting evidence they explain why people in the 80s - who ate roughly the same amount of calories and had the same level of activity as people today... were on average, a lot lighter in weight.
We've been peddled industry lies since the 1950s, largely by coroporations who are founded by 7th Day Adventists ( who are vegetarian by faith and founded companies like Kellog), that Omega-6 PUFAs are healthy and it's the Saturated Fats (animal fats, largely) that are bad bad bad. Yet, since the 1950s ..our health keeps getting worse and worse while omega-6 consumption goes up and up and up..
These companies have influenced nutritional boards and peddle the Ancel Keys, Seven Nations Study ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study ) as the basis for Saturated Fats being the main driver behind CVD. But the study intentionally left off nations that would have radically changed the results and thus the conclusion. 50+ years of nutritional health has been guided by this b.s.
Find me non-whole/fresh foods not jam packed with seed-oils. It's in marinades, tortilla shells, most bread, every body of packaged food you can imagine - chips, crackers, cookies, pre-made pies and cakes. Hell - i bought some salted pecans the other day from amazon and they were slathered in cottonseed oil for some reason. They're i n salad dressings, bbq sauces, wing sauces. It's even in dry-rubs for wings. Every. Thing.
Mark my words - when history has had it's say, seed-oil delivering a level of omega-6s that the human body was never meant to endure long term, will go down as causing more suffering than sugar ever did, but made infinitely worse by the level of sugar we eat as well.
The amount of omega6s we got from nuts or avocados or oats or whatever, was fine. Condensing it in the way we have and shoving it into everything has raised the titled the scale of consumption to toxic levels. And the AHA is Ok with this.
The AHA, IMHO, is an organization with zero credibility when it comes to understanding human beings and lipids. They're a captured front for industry who would pass off Omega-6s as "heart healthy" and muddy the waters of the debate with shit quality studies.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/no-need-to...
Seed-oils that wouldn't, largely, exist without industrial processes creating them as a byproduct (cottonseed oil, corn oil, soybean oil/Crisco, safflower oil, canola, etc.) are a HUGE driver of inflammation which is basically the root of every single disease - cardiac issues, cognition problems, neurological issues, autoimmune issues, cancer).
And there's a lot of theory supporting evidence they explain why people in the 80s - who ate roughly the same amount of calories and had the same level of activity as people today... were on average, a lot lighter in weight.
See: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/why-it-wa...
See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32008872/ and a whole ton more studies too: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=omega-6+insulin+resistance&...
We've been peddled industry lies since the 1950s, largely by coroporations who are founded by 7th Day Adventists ( who are vegetarian by faith and founded companies like Kellog), that Omega-6 PUFAs are healthy and it's the Saturated Fats (animal fats, largely) that are bad bad bad. Yet, since the 1950s ..our health keeps getting worse and worse while omega-6 consumption goes up and up and up..
These companies have influenced nutritional boards and peddle the Ancel Keys, Seven Nations Study ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Countries_Study ) as the basis for Saturated Fats being the main driver behind CVD. But the study intentionally left off nations that would have radically changed the results and thus the conclusion. 50+ years of nutritional health has been guided by this b.s.
Find me non-whole/fresh foods not jam packed with seed-oils. It's in marinades, tortilla shells, most bread, every body of packaged food you can imagine - chips, crackers, cookies, pre-made pies and cakes. Hell - i bought some salted pecans the other day from amazon and they were slathered in cottonseed oil for some reason. They're i n salad dressings, bbq sauces, wing sauces. It's even in dry-rubs for wings. Every. Thing.
Mark my words - when history has had it's say, seed-oil delivering a level of omega-6s that the human body was never meant to endure long term, will go down as causing more suffering than sugar ever did, but made infinitely worse by the level of sugar we eat as well.
The amount of omega6s we got from nuts or avocados or oats or whatever, was fine. Condensing it in the way we have and shoving it into everything has raised the titled the scale of consumption to toxic levels. And the AHA is Ok with this.
The AHA, IMHO, is an organization with zero credibility when it comes to understanding human beings and lipids. They're a captured front for industry who would pass off Omega-6s as "heart healthy" and muddy the waters of the debate with shit quality studies.