When I was young, they told me that salt and saturated fat were bad.
I tried margarine. It tasted nasty.
“Wait a minute”, I thought:
“Are you telling me that animal fat is bad for an apex predator?”
Then I learned that if you want animals to thrive, you need to give them free access to salt licks.
Salt tastes really good. All food is better for it. Animals will risk their lives to get it.
And I thought:
“Are you telling me that salt is bad for animals?”
At that point I decided that the people telling me these things were idiots.
John, Two things you might enjoy. Don't know how to send them to you directly so posting here. Feel free to delete.
One a book I haven't read :) and one a site on /reddit about seed oils. If you'd like, perhaps you could post a link to this site on reddit.
Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back by Catherine Shanahan (can't get the link to work)
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopEatingSeedOils/
Agreed on the saturated fat, not on the salt.
You say "Salt tastes really good. All food is better for it. Animals will risk their lives to get it."
This is more nuanced. If you give animals the same continues amounts of salt that modern humans eat, they will quickly run into problems. I agree that salt tastes good when mixed in with other foods. It makes all food addictive and cravings will come.
Here is an experiment you could do : if you really think salt is important for a human (I think : yes for human children and sweating adults, no for non-sweating adults): try licking it seperatly instead of mixing it in your food (as animals do) and see how it affects your food intake.