Its one study but this, in immune-competent people without material hemorrhage risk looks like something worth doing as an adjunct to cancer treatment as it has quite-low risk provided the other things you're doing don't interfere with clotting.

In short it appears that ordinary aspirin, in modest doses, suppresses metastasis of existing cancer.  The hazard ratio they found is rather impressive -- it is not a 100% response by any means, but since spread of a primary tumor is an "aw ****" sort of thing while focused further investigation certainly is in order this is an extremely inexpensive and, provided there are no hemorrhagic concerns, looks like a good "bang for the buck on risk" addition with nearly zero cost.

Note that inhibition of COX-2 did not result in benefit; thus acetaminophen (Tylenol) would not be expected to work as that blocks COX-2 and it is unknown if ibuprofen will help (it blocks both non-selectively.)

Aspirin can be extremely dangerous if you have a condition, or are using other drugs, that potentiate bleeding -- including the possibility of causing hemorrhagic strokes, which are usually fatal, so it is very important, especially if you're using other medications (and you probably will be if you have cancer!) to know if there is an interaction risk or you have a hemorrhage risk already, and in addition if your immune system is compromised whether it would be beneficial is questionable.  Thus this isn't really a "do it yourself" sort of thing, but it is a very interesting study with an unexpected finding.

Oh, and its not the first one either -- so why isn't this part of the standard recommendations?

You know damn well what the answer is -- at 2 cents a pill nobody can make any money on it.

So screams the AP!

Until recently, most Americans had never heard the term “seed oils,” even though they’ve likely cooked with and consumed them for decades.

It’s the catchy description coined by internet influencers, wellness gurus and some politicians to refer to common cooking oils — think canola, soybean and corn oil — that have long been staples in many home kitchens.

Those fiery critics refer to the top refined vegetable oils as “the hateful eight” and claim that they’re fueling inflammation and high rates of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes.

Well I cannot prove that they are the cause of obesity, diabetes and all other sort of malady.

However, I can tell you that for a huge percentage of people but not all they have a marked, easily-identified and absolutely repeatable seriously-negative impact on a very sensitive metabolic marker that cannot be argued with, it is approximately as bad as drinking three beers at once in many individuals (myself included) which exactly nobody argues is "healthy" and it is trivially discernable on an individual basis with a device that costs little but until a few years ago didn't exist in the consumer space at all.

But since you can now on an individual basis identify if you are harmed by these -- why would you not?

Simply get a smartwatch or other device that measures overnight HRV, establish a baseline, and then if you eat them now take one week and eliminate all of them from what you consume, changing nothing else.

If you do not eat them now (and if you eat "carnivore" you probably don't) then go ahead and try eating them and see if you get immediately hit that night.

Again, this is personal and utterly impossible to argue with when it comes to the results.

Oh by the way you can also identify many other "foods" that do bad things to you as well this way (e.g. low-level food allergies), and yes you should.  Never mind that if you pay attention you can also use it to identify environmental allergies that do not trigger significant overt symptoms.  You're likely to learn a lot -- and if you act on that it may result in marked improvements in your health.

This much is certain: It won't hurt you.

One warning: You must read labels assiduously and if there is no label (e.g. in a restaurant) presume they're in there because they are.  For example go into a grocery store and try to find any salad dressing that doesn't contain them.  Good luck with that; they're in essentially all of them and while a green salad is perfectly ok to eat the dressing, full of that crap, for most people will objectively hammer your overnight HRV if you're sensitive to these oils.

I eliminated them "by accident" about 15 years ago when I went ketogenic on my food intake -- and the result was all negative metabolic changes that had occurred over the previous couple of decades reversed, I was able to athletically perform at levels I had never formerly achieved (even in High School!) and sixty pounds disappeared.

Today, 15 years later, I require no prescription medications, I have no chronic conditions, everything works as God intended (including the annoying part of waking up as a man who is not in a heterosexual relationship and does not desire to **** my cat), my body mass has not gone back to what it was, I am still very capable of athletic performance at 61 years of age and I still eat mostly-ketogenic.  Yes, I do "cheat" on occasion and have a couple of times done a "challenge" on glucose tolerance (starting at about 5 years after changing what I eat) since I (now) have a KetoMojo (which also measures glucose with a finger-stick along with ketones) and I am not insulin resistant, by said self-administered test, whatsoever.  15 years ago I was.

Now I'm quite sure if I went back to eating what I used to eat all those problems would return and progressively get worse.  I have no intention of doing so because I desire neither obesity or diabetes, and a stroke or heart attack isn't on my bingo card as a desired outcome either.

Further, while I can't be certain I'll bet those who claim they went "keto" and didn't get results were continuing to use seed oils, particularly for cooking, they're sensitive to them and that is why it didn't work for them.  This of course is verifiable for any individual person since there is now knowledge that indeed they hammer many -- in my experience most -- people metabolically.

However, since I now have a Garmin that does HRV (and many other things that are quite useful in my athletic and other sports pursuits) I have individually tested seed oils several times in various types and every single time I get massively whacked that night in overnight HRV.

It is utterly repeatable in every instance and many other people have reported the same on my forum both in "The Bar" and in comments on my articles related to food consumption habits and the change it made in my life.  Further, unintentional challenges where a restaurant screws me when I'm traveling invariably show up that night -- and if I eat somewhere and something that I know does not (e.g. Texas Roadhouse, any of their steaks, chili and steamed veggies as a side) I do not take said hit, ever.

But -- this very clear, substantial and immediate hit to overnight HRV I experience is not universal.  There are a couple of people on my forum who have run such tests personally and they have no negative impact from these oils in their HRV.  They are outliers -- most who have done such a test have had significantly negative results -- repeatedly so.

That some people -- even if only a small minority -- have no negative impact isn't that surprising.  People from England, for example, can typically eat far more fast ("white") carbohydrates without insulin resistance problems than those of African heritage.  Why?  Because historically English people did eat much more "white" carbohydrate over a period of thousands of years and genetic adaptation over time is real -- but it takes generations to become common.  The same has been noted in the Inuit, who had nearly zero cardiovascular disease and obesity historically but now have some of the highest rates in the world as a result of introduction of "western" foods.

Nonetheless given that it appears to be not "rare" but "uncommon" to not be impacted why are these "researchers" not testing this in people individually given that devices that can do so are now inexpensive and can be worn all the time without difficulty -- all you need is roughly $200 and you get value from that for years (until it wears out) at no additional cost once you purchase the device.  The Garmin Instinct 2, a superseded model that is still available, is (as far as I know) the least-expensive option at $200; there are several others in Garmin's line that are prettier, more-capable and of course cost more depending on what you actually do.  All of them are extremely convenient in that they only have to be charged once a week or even less, which is a huge problem with some competing devices (many of which don't do overnight HRV anyway) such as the Apple watch and various "smart" Android watches.

If these chuckle****s continue to pontificate without running said tests in any sort of formal setting you can and the advantage of you doing so is that the results are personal to you.  I'm sure you agree that a couple hundred bucks is a hell of a lot cheaper than a heart attack, diabetes or obesity never mind the disability all of them cause -- and if you already are living with either of the latter two getting that crap out of your mouth might well help or even reverse it, especially if you delete the carbohydrates other than green vegetables at the same time.

Read here for more -- it was written long before I had this tool available to me, but now I understand why it worked and worked it did for me nearly 15 years ago and most-importantly the changes were durable, including the extra body mass staying off.

And if you find that you, like so many others, are seriously negatively impacted by these things?

Go raise Hell and tell the *******s who told you these were "good for you", probably including your doctor, to **** him or herself with a cactus -- and while you're at it you might consider exactly how many other pieces of "advice" that person and the rest of the "establishment" and media gave you that are equally full of **** and have directly contributed to the ruination of your health and what all that deserves in retribution, including among the "establishment" in all of its elements.

I'll leave the details of that last part up to you.

I'm tired of this ****.

I have a very short list of on-the-road places and things I can eat at said places that won't poison me.  Specifically no ******ned seed oils that you don't label, and no restaurant labels things with them present or cooked with them.

Example: Texas Roadhouse; steak (including their chopped steak "road kill"), mixed veggies and chili are all seed oil free.  I know this because I've eaten them in multiple places all over the United States and my overnight HRV never gets hit.

Incidentally DO NOT eat their "butter" -- it isn't and you WILL get screwed by it.

But last week I was up north skiing and went into a place I really have liked over the years -- but all before HRV was on my Garmin watch.  I ordered the same things I usually have ordered in there and knew before I left I was ****ed because I could feel it -- it was vague, but there.

Overnight HRV confirmed it; I got hammered.

******n you people; you got me once, but I was there three more days and I didn't go back.  I did send a nasty email to them but got no response (big shock); you can have great beer (and they do) but I'm not going in there anymore for anything to eat, and that means not at all because there are other options in town of course.

Incidentally there's another place in that same town that has a nice Prime Rib.  Ate there two days later with veggies as my side and...... no hit.  Uh huh.  Big surprise, right, since roasted prime rib is roasted in..... its own animal fat.  Some horseradish was nice to go with it and while they did cook it in an oven (it wasn't smoked) they had a nice rub on it -- quite spicy, but very pleasant -- too.

Look, I get it -- seed oils are cheap and in addition we were all conned in the 1980s that they were "better" for you than animal fats.  It was and is a lie and anyone with a Garmin that does overnight HRV can trivially prove it.  So why don't you? Is it because if you did you'd want to machine-gun virtually every single ****ing eatery on the planet, including perhaps your favorite places to eat over the years as you'd discover, with irrefutable and personal evidence, that they were serving you slow poison because its cheaper than using animal fats to cook with?

Yes, the hit is "subtle" to one's metabolic health; its not like you fall over dead the next afternoon.  But so are tiny doses of arsenic yet nobody who doesn't want to die would eat them on purpose.

And incidentally there are basically no salad dressings that are not full of that crap so if you're eating salads you're getting dosed with it whether you're doing so in a restaurant or at home.  STOP THAT.

It is well past the time when we should all demand that every eatery stop using this **** in their cooking -- or at least label their menu so those of us who prefer not to be poisoned have choices -- and if there aren't any that don't wind up contaminated (due to how their kitchen is set up) we can get up, walk out and find somewhere else before we get poisoned.

Maybe there are people who aren't impacted by these oils.  If you're one of them then God love you; over time genetic adaptation is a thing and the way it happens is that those who get screwed generally are less-successful reproducing.  Of course we have ruined that selection in that we have socially shamed anyone who says "heh, being fat and diabetic is, with the exception of Type I that is clearly autoimmune related, something you can't shame people or avoid them over so go ahead and mate with those folks!"

That's dumb from a societal point of view people because you are short-circuiting the natural process by which the state of genetics improves among humans.

Incidentally this is why pale-white English and European folks get hit but less than Black people from breads and nastily-starchy potatoes; there weren't any in sub-Saharan Africa historically but there were all over England and Europe and in fact they kept (some) people alive during famines in those areas.

Here is my point of view: If you're metabolically compromised through your deliberate acts then why would I want to date you?  And further if you're selling "food" that compromises my health why would I want to pay you and then eat it?

This becomes very serious indeed in the modern world with travel in the United States, however, in that it is extremely difficult to do so and not get poisoned in this way.  Now if I choose, on vacation, to do "bad for me" things (like drink too much) that's a choice and on me but if you serve me seed oils in a restaurant without disclosure **** you with a rusty chainsaw up your ass until you taste it.

I'm not interested in taking a "vacation" and then needing a vacation from my vacation when I return because I've been slightly poisoned just trying to have a decent dinner.

CUT THAT **** OUT YOU MOTHER****ERS.

Garmin has, accidentally I'm sure, put the tool for you to get very angry -- and healthy -- at the same time in your hands at a reasonable price.

Specifically, any of their "smartwatches" that can do overnight HRV.

It takes 2-3 weeks to get a baseline but once you have it you can do "notch testing" if you are careful and change one thing -- specifically, what you eat.

I just ran one of these.

Those who have followed my writing over time know that in 2011 I changed my food intake to be low-carb, high (animal) fat, moderate protein and it changed my life.  60lbs disappeared without effort and vigorous exercise became not difficult and even enjoyable.  Its 13 years later and at 61 I still find running enjoyable along with all manner of other vigorous outdoor activity such as back-country hiking and skiing.  Indeed just a couple of days ago I got back from skiing -- at 10k feet altitude in Colorado.  It was awesome.

The so-called (as claimed by various medical "authorities") inexorable path of obesity and Type II diabetes halted, reversed and my insulin sensitivity returned over time.  Not one drug was involved in any of that, by the way, and thus there were no drug adverse effects either (they're not "side effects" when they harm you so stop calling them that.  We should all pledge that anyone using the term "side effects" instead of the proper term "adverse effects" gets an immediate baseball bat to the mouth.)

Over the last few years I've become more and more convinced that the largest issue for non-diabetic people isn't the carbs per-se, other than the stupidly-fast processed carbohydrates -- its seed oils.

I've "busted" local eateries serving them without my knowledge by, for example, cooking vegetables in them or serving me "butter" that really isn't.  It is 100% repeatable -- it will tank my overnight HRV every time.

So I decided to try something as a "notch test" on fairly fast carbs in the knowing absence of seed oil of any sort.

Back from my carb-heavy days I had bought a breadmaker; a fairly nice one from Williams Sonoma.  It has sat in my kitchen cabinet for more than 10 years unused.  Plugged it in, it powered up.  Ok.

I went to the store and bought a bag of bread flour and the smallest package (3 packets) of yeast.

Into the machine went the following:

2 cups Bread Flour
Sugar (ordinary white, granulated)
Salt
Yeast
Warm water
Melted butter (not the called-for vegetable oil)

Push button, came back in 3 hours.

There's a nicely-baked loaf of bread in there.

So I slice off two thick pieces, slather in more butter, and eat them yesterday afternoon and early evening, respectively.

What happens to my overnight HRV?

Its within the normal range.

Yes, my water balance shifted (as it does when you run on carbs) because carbs require more water to process than fats.  And while I didn't look I'm sure that I'm not in nutritional ketosis at this point for that specific reason.

But..... no adverse HRV impact at all.

Now I'm not insulin resistant anymore -- I was 15 years ago, but going low-carb reversed that over time.  It took several years so I would not expect this to be a good idea if you are insulin-resistant, as eating carbs like that will blow up your blood sugar levels.  And were I to return to this on a regular basis the same thing would almost-certainly happen to me.

However, this is a very solid piece of evidence that the bigger impact on your health is in fact those ******ned seed oils and for me, at least, its irrefutable in that a challenge of baked goods where I know there are no seed oils in them because I put the ingredients in the machine and there were zero such in the ingredients it did not hit my overnight HRV despite being wildly carb-laden.

Folks, I said over a decade ago that seed oils are literally "heart attack in a bottle."

This was based on the fact that all substances, concentrated sufficiently, are poisonous and it is up to someone to demonstrate that a specific dose is safe, not the other way around and the correlation with increasing obesity, heart disease and diabetes tracks almost-exactly with the increase in seed oil consumption on a per-capita basis.  On the other side of the debate to counter this correlation there is no such evidence of safety when it comes to seed oils and in fact we now know that the so-called "consensus" was tainted at best and quite-possibly deliberately corrupted.

Subsequent reexaminations of this evidence by nutrition experts have now been published in >20 review papers, which have largely concluded that saturated fats have no effect on cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality.

Ancel Keys alleged "work" was false; whether it was deliberately false originally doesn't matter.  The fact is that the claims were not reproduceable and yet it turned into the basis of a very profitable set of conditions for both the food and medical industries, all of which have made a crap-ton of money off cheaper food ingredients on the food side and human misery, disease and death at insane profits for every single entity involved on the medical and pharmaceutical side.  You're free to conclude this was a "mistake" -- I argue it was deliberate and worthy of capital punishment of every single person involved both originally (although they're likely already dead) AND ALL WHO ADVANCE IT NOW THAT WE KNOW IT WAS AND IS BOTH BULL**** AND IS ACTIVELY KILLING PEOPLE.

But you don't have to take my word for it or read studies because you can test it in your own physiology, which is of course distinct to some degree from everyone else's and is also 100% true 100% of the time for any person who does so and is thus irrefutable for you as an individual.

Now, of course, we have also polluted this debate with so-called "climate science" arguing that animals are polluters.  That's so ****ing laughable that anyone arguing it should be executed where they stand; this nation, for example, has been estimated to have had thirty million bison roaming the United States just prior to Columbus' arrival.  Obviously they did not make the planet hot enough to kill everyone and in fact by 1890 there were only a thousand left and we did not fall into an ice age as a consequence of that slaughter.

It ought to be screamingly obvious that animals are in fact part of the ordinary cycle of the Earth's biome and that is a good thing.  After all we're animals too, you know, and we fart just like a cow or bison does.

All of this crap has combined over time to lead so-called "experts" recommend that you quite-literally slowly poison yourself and worse, your children.  Go look in any store and see what's on the label of every infant formula, typically as the third ingredient by volume.  Yep -- seed oils, all of which hit my HRV severely and that directly implicates metabolic damage.

This crap is an utterly huge component of the medical mess.  I'm convinced of it.  While I'm sure there are people who don't have the negative metabolic impact of what I witness myself I also believe its extremely rare because every person I've talked with that has such a device, and who I've convinced to remove these substances even for a single day sees improvement and thus sees the damage for themselves on a notch challenge.  I've yet to run into the person without that response - again, I'm sure such people exist but its very uncommon and this sort of evidence is something you can develop and test for yourself, personally, with a tiny bit of effort.

If you do, and find the same thing, then please explain why you let the government, doctors, so-called "health authorities" in the media and elsewhere make a recommendation that you kill yourself by eating metabolic poisons rather than the alternative (animal fats) that have no such impact on your body without doing anything to those who, on the evidence in your person with your own individual testing, have been and are trying to poison you -- and your kids.

Do you really hate yourself and your children enough to let this go unanswered when the clear motivation is simply MONEY at the expense of your health and life?

And oh yes, they all know it too -- the data has been there for decades and deliberately ignored.

Advantage: This is a fully-individual, objective and reasonable-cost measurement.  The results cannot be argued with.  You either prove or disprove, for you, that this is true.  I do not claim that this is true for everyone, but for everyone I've had the pleasure of looking at this with it has been.  Nonetheless there are probably people for whom this does not apply; if you're one of them, after you test it yourself, then enjoy ignoring this advice because it almost-certainly does not apply to you personally.  But it does apply to nearly everyone in my experience, which means until you perform this test you must presume you're poisoning yourself daily.

Yes, I said poisoning yourself.  Slowly, but you are.

Every holiday season Garmin puts a number of their "smartwatches" on sale.  The key ones are found at this link; the bottom line is that anything that does overnight HRV is what you're looking for in the feature set.  The least-expensive as of this column is the Instinct 2 series.

There are others (e.g. the "Oura" ring) but note that one of the keys to this is not just overnight wear, but all-the-time wear.  This is a problem with many smartwatches and similar devices as they require frequent charging.  This is where Garmin excels; their devices will run a week or even two weeks between charges.  That matters because if the unit is not on your person it can't record anything and you need to wear it basically all the time for it to get an accurate baseline.

(BTW before you ask no, I don't work for Garmin and don't earn anything if you buy one -- I'm not a "referral affiliate."  I have been an avid user of their "smartwatch" and "exercise watch" (before the smartwatches showed up) products for roughly the last 15 years, and like their products a lot.)

After getting it you need to wear it essentially continually, especially overnight while sleeping, for about three weeks to establish a baseline.  During this time you should do what you usually do -- make no effort to change anything, because what you're looking for is the "as things are now" situation.

You can either download and use the "Connect" app on your phone (either IOS or Android) or connect the watch once a week or so to a computer and use Express, which is a small app that runs on your computer and will sync when its plugged in -- and of course your watch needs to charge too, so this is a good way to do both at once.  A web browser version of the Connect app is at https://connect.garmin.com and is essentially the same as the phone application, but in a larger format.

Once you have a baseline your graph will look like this (not the same values, but you'll have a "gray" area with green, orange and possible red markers) -- again, this will take about three weeks although the values will show up starting immediately.

If you click Overnight Averages you'll get both the rolling average (the dot) and the line, which will look like this:

Note that there is one night in that week that is out-of-range.

Now to test take a 24 hour period and make very sure you eat nothing that has a seed oil in it.  If you cook at home this isn't too tough, but it does mean not eating anything in a box or jar that has any mention of a plant-based oil (yes, including olive oil, palm oil and similar) on it.  Olive oil is likely actually ok but it is almost-always adulterated so for this purpose you must avoid it.  Essentially all salad dressings bought at the store are laced with this stuff as is essentially anything that comes in a box or other similar shelf-stable package.  If you eat eggs use either bacon grease, lard or butter (real butter, not reduced-fat or margarine) to cook them.  Meats and green vegetables, provided they are not cooked in or otherwise exposed to seed oils are perfectly ok as are hard cheeses (again, blocks of cheese, not processed stuff -- read the label!) and similar.  Spices are also unrestricted.

Leave everything else you do alone.

Note that one drink a day will hit your HRV overnight quite-reliably for a couple of points.  After 2 drinks in a given day it will get hammered, so for accurate results don't do that while performing this test.

Note the change, if any, in HRV over night.

If it goes up when you remove the seed oils you might want to keep doing that for a period of time until it levels off again.  This may take a bit, but once it does now you can "notch test" the hypothesis that they're harmful to you by eating something containing them and seeing if the HRV goes back down that night.

Notice that one night deviation?  That was from "buttered" crackers with a cheese dip (cheese I can eat in any amount without any impact at all and do regularly) but no other changes compared against my usual food intakes.  I know that's what caused it because this is a consistent hit whenever I eat seed oils and that day it was the only possible exposure to them at a pub -- which I did not expect because it was claimed the crackers were BUTTERED.  Obviously that was not butter; it just tasted like it.

Also note that this insult took two days to return back to "high normal" and in both of those days I consumed quite a bit of carbohydrates since it was, after all, Thanksgiving.  But -- all the food I consumed I cooked at home ex a gift scotch-infused "cake" that was imported and, on the label, were no seed oils (gee, fancy that; they don't use them in Europe in baked goods as a matter of routine!)

A week later I went back to the same place and ate the same baked wings -- but no dip and crackers.  The impact did not occur.  I thus know precisely what caused it.

If you get the same sort of result I do -- and yes, you should repeat it a couple of times because its always possible to accidentally confound a single test without realizing you did it, you have the gold standard of evidence for yourself because for any scientific experiment that standard is repeatability -- that is, every time you do something the outcome you first observed occurs -- not one time in three, not half the time, essentially or actually all the time.  It is only once you have established that you can make a claim for yourself but once you do then from that point forward if you continue to take in such substances voluntarily you are deliberately poisoning yourself and there is no escaping that fact.

If you get the results I get -- every time -- then you might go into a grocery store and pull off the shelf a can of infant formula.  Note what the third ingredient on the list (by law they must be listed in order of the amount present) typically is.

Incidentally if you've been eating this crap for a long time (and if you're most Americans, you have) it takes time for it to all leave your body because, being fat soluble, it winds up in all your tissues -- including especially your fat tissue.  Think of it like weed -- if you smoke some it will show up in your urine for a couple of weeks or more.  This is the same sort of thing, so if you get a positive result, that is, improvement, no matter how slight, if you're like most people and don't eat any of it the next day you will likely, for some period of time, continue to see improvement as it is eliminated from your body.

Until just a couple of years ago this sort of highly-sensitive and personal information was almost-impossible to obtain for the average Joe or Jane.  It wasn't impossible for researchers with effectively unlimited money to obtain these results but obviously nobody did the work or, if they did, they hid the results on purpose.

If you're one of the people for whom this damage does not accrue when you consume such things then happy for you.  But as I have noted, for virtually everyone, it is absolutely present and among those who have such devices and who have let me see them there it is.

This started with my observations with a still sensitive but less so metric (all day stress) where I'd bet others in the run club that I could identify which days they had consumed no alcohol in the evenings.  I won a lot of free beers this way.  All-day stress levels (which the Garmin watches also measure) is quite-useful but materially-less sensitive than overnight HRV and while you can read the seed oil impact in all day stress you have to pay a lot closer attention where with overnight HRV it literally screams at you.

Let me be clear: If you eat seed oils, at least in my observation, it is roughly equivalent on a metabolic basis to consuming THREE beers a day.  Nobody would consider a person who consumes THREE drinks a day, every day, to be "healthy"; any physician would tell you that this, if continued, is almost-certain to have very severe negative effects over time including alcoholism, liver failure AND ULTIMATELY DEATH.  Obviously if you drink on top of that then its even worse, and of course if you're drinking you're inclined to eat things, so there you go -- but after repeating this several times as an "isolation" (change one thing) test I can confirm that one item of food containing seed oils, all alone, does more damage than TWO beers.  This **** is in damn near everything, including virtually all commercially baked goods and anything that comes in a box.  It is basically impossible, for example, to consume any sort of salad dressing without eating this crap so stop kidding yourself about that salad being "healthy" -- the greens are probably fine but the dressing is not.

You can't even buy roasted nuts without them having this **** in them and it is extremely difficult to avoid them if eating out because they are not disclosed.  Even worse is putting them in foods that are served in places like schools where they're essentially force-fed to kids.

The worst "conspiracies", if you want to call them that, are those where multiple actors, all apparently unconnected, goad you into doing something and they all profit from it at your expense.  Seed oils are one of these: The food seller uses them and loves it because they're cheaper, the various "medical authorities" all told you to eat them in favor of animal fats (this was and remains an outright lie) and then when you did all the bad effects -- including obesity, diabetes and all sorts of inflammation-related diseases which seed oils cause as they are all inflammatory -- you have to come back and have treated.  Oh, and don't think you can get away from this by using olive oil -- it is extremely common for it to be adulterated with various seed oils and nobody ever goes to jail for that either.

We are headed for a train wreck across the health system of the United States.  The release of the "covid study" from Congress the other day, which claimed the shots "saved millions of lives" is a flat-out lie and not only that it is deliberately ignoring the enormous spike higher in cancers and cerebrovascular conditions -- heart attacks, strokes and clotting disorders -- that showed up exactly when the shots were rolled out and has not gone away.  In addition the last year has given us a two trillion dollar federal deficit which is all in CMS spending that is not offset with current tax receipts and that has been growing exponentially over the last three decades.  This cannot continue and if you are reliant on that spending you are going to be ****ed.

I have been beating this drum for close to two decades now and in fact was raising Hell about it back in the 1990s, as it was obvious what was going to happen.  Rather than address it then when it was reasonable we instead doubled down and kept doing stupid things, including both lying to others (by physicians, so-called "public health" experts and others) and ourselves in what we stuff into our mouths.  But now, rather than conjecture and association, which can provide strong evidence when its is across huge populations but cannot, as an association, be conclusive we have available at little cost the capacity to determine at an individual, personal level whether these issues apply to you individually in an actual test you can perform, nobody else has access to and which is irrefutable evidence that your specific metabolism is poisoned by consuming these things.

We should hang every so-called "health official" and "doctor" who advises you to consume this crap, all the way back to infant formula.  We should force black-box labels on every food and container of such material in every store and absolutely ban them from any place where they are not disclosed and thus avoidable (e.g. restaurants should have to label every item on their menus that contain same.)

But this journey, in fact, begins with you proving to yourself that these people have conned you into poisoning yourself on a slow but relentless basis since your infancy and then, once you have satisfied yourself that this is in fact the case for you then what you choose to do next -- whether it simply be avoiding all such consumption for your person or taking it on more-broadly is up to you.  I will not advocate violence but I will certainly understand if you decide that it is warranted, exactly as many have publicly expressed quite-recently.  All these people -- the FDA, NIH, physicians, insurance firms and pharmaceutical companies had to know; this crap has been going on as a concerted advocacy message and in fact when it comes to schools and such has been forced on our kids for decades, never mind the most-blatant example being that every hospital sends every new mother home with a box of formula full of this crap knowing full well that if she uses it her lactation will dry up from non-use and both she and her infant will be effectively compelled to continue to buy and consume it.

But from that point forward, even if all you do is stop eating that which screws you on a personal basis, you'll start to become more healthy literally by the day.

PS: Note that this has no impact on, nor is targeting high-glycemic consumption which is known to produce insulin resistance leading to obesity and Type II diabetes (nor does it account for statins which have an actual label warning that they cause diabetes -- which, of course, your doctor will push on you after you create systemic inflammation via consumption of seed oils and cholesterol is part of the body's repair mechanism so increasing inflammation will cause the liver to make more of it!)  This is targeting only seed oils -- but if you're not going to change anything else, and many people simply won't, for the love of all that is Holy change this.

And by the way, contemplate this -- ninety percent of comments on the recently-whacked health insurance CEO were not expressing horror or disgust (at his murder); they were somewhere between "well, bye Felicia!" and outright glee.  To those of you in the medical, pharmaceutical, "so-called healthy oil advocacy" groups and food producers -- once people figure this one out, and they can with absolute finality for any individual person -- exactly how many people are going to get really angry, especially when they walk down the grocery store aisle and note what the third ingredient is on essentially every can or bottle of infant formula?