I don't know. There are a lot of claims. There is science on both sides.

If you want to play it safe, use rules from evolutionary biology: whatever we used to eat can't be that bad. Oils from things like avocado, olive, and peanut must be okay at least when eaten in those foods. So simple beliefs like "double bonds cause inflammation" cant be right. Even fish oils have double bonds. Oils with double bonds are more liquid, flex more easily. Saturated fats are stiff. Your body needs to flex. Your cells need to flex. They need some polys. But chemically extracted seed oils are not part of our historical diet. It might be like eating stale rancid foods and not being able to taste that it is rancid because they chemically removed that flavor. If we can taste rancidity as bad, then it must actually be bad, or we wouldn't have evolved that taste sensation.

Anyhow, that's my take. Work it out for yourself.

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This podcast about McDonald’s fries from Malcolm Gladwell may provide additional perspective : https://spotify.link/djB1kUKd9Cb

I'm listening. Interesting.

I have some insight into other historical aspects of food health. I was raised Seventh-Day Adventist, and through the late 70s and 80s I was raised vegetarian. An SDA university called Loma-Linda University in So.Cal did "health" research on what foods are healthy and what isn't healthy. Only problem is, they were SDA, and the SDA have a prophetess named Ellen G. White who wrote many books claiming what is and isn't healthy back around 1900. So of course Loma Linda University always found out that Ellen G. White was correct. That's not science. But it was published as scientific research. Back in those days, very few other people were doing research on what foods are healthy. And so their results tainted the entire field for decades.

Here's the second part of the podcast that will close the loop on Beef tallow . Check the basement tapes from Malcolm Gladwell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBG7LAbeUh4