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Just when you master the weirdly newfangled units of the French revolutions, the throw literal stones at you..

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Two anecdotes re seed oils.

Several years ago by chance I saw an obituary of a man whose photo showed he had a face like the full moon and no neck, just cascading jowls. Before reading his obituary I said to myself "a victim of seed oils if ever there were one". And it turns out he owned and ran a cottonseed mill !! He did live into his early 80s, but he looked his age in full.

A few years later I happened to read another obituary, of a doctor who lived to 91. The obituary photo was of him as a very handsome young man, and the obituary stated "The only thing the man was afraid of was carbohydrates; which he adamantly refused to eat. As a result he died a hot, fine and handsome specimen to the end with gorgeous blue eyes!!!" In other words he ate very few seed oils - no pastries made with seed oils, no potatoes fried in seed oils etc. Perhaps he ate chicken and fish fried in seed oils and used salad dressings made with seed oils, but his seed oil consumption (by accident) was probably less than 10% of a typical American.

These two obituaries, both separately and taken together, have reinforced my determination to avoid seed oils as much as possible.

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