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Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by teslabox on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:43PM (#13632517)
I try to avoid eating vegetable oil. I understand that the polyunsaturated oils are preferentially stored to protect the body from these unstable oils.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest needs to eat some crow.

Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by greglindahl on Sunday February 12, 2017 @09:42PM (#13632758)
The entire nutrition science industry needs to start reporting confidence levels associated with studies. Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studies. That's why you see them contradict each other on a frequent basis.

You need a 5 sigma result to discover a new particle. Discovering new particles doesn't kill people.

Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by sndean on Sunday February 12, 2017 @10:37PM (#13632953)
> Almost all nutritional advice is based on small studies.

I doubt they'll ever really expand beyond small studies in that field. There's certain groups that routinely do meta-analyses of nutritional (and other) studies, like the Cochrane Collaboration. E.g., Effect of cocoa on blood pressure: http://www.cochrane.org/CD008893/HTN_effect-of-cocoa-on-bloo...

That's really the only way to be confident, short of setting up a massive (expensive) randomized controlled trial.

Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by brotherAB on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:50AM (#13633389)
You are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack. Yet the only president talking about nutrition and GMO is Putin. Crazy based russians. https://www.rt.com/business/324605-russia-putin-healthy-food...
Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by grzm on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:52AM (#13633396)
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Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by brotherAB on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:52AM (#13633575)
Not an argument.
Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by klodolph on Monday February 13, 2017 @12:18AM (#13633287)
Discovering new particles doesn't kill people? Not so sure… the history of atomic chemistry is littered with dead scientists.
Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by nickbauman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:38PM (#13633163)
Temperate vegetable oils are really, really bad for you. Example bad temperate oil: Canola oil. Temperate plant oil is designed to provide nutrients to the germinating seed at lower temperatures. After it gets warm enough and the seed germinates the oil is no longer needed. So it oxidizes. Oxidation is a serious problem for the mammalian body plan.

Eat only unprocessed tropical oils, extra virgin olive oil or raw unprocessed avocado oil.

Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by anamexis on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:54PM (#13633210)
Do you have citations for any of this?
Re:Replacing butter with vegetable oils does not cut heart d... by teslabox on Monday February 13, 2017 @01:22AM (#13633479)
The phenomenon is called 'lipid peroxidation'. The search term 'drying oil' is also helpful.