Popular alarm about seed oils appears driven more by aesthetics and mechanistic hand‑waving than by consistent population, trial, or genetic evidence. Analysis of NHANES (dietary and plasma linoleic acid, n‑6:n‑3 ratios), plus trial/genetic literature, shows either null or protective associations once measurement and confounding are addressed.
— If true, this undercuts a widespread dietary panic and illustrates how measurement choices and narrative framing can create persistent health scares without robust causal backing.
Cremieux
2026.03.25
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Cremieux’s reanalysis of NHANES using plasma linoleic acid, dietary measures, propensity scoring, and doubly‑robust estimation to test seed‑oil correlations with inflammation, lipids, HbA1c, and mortality.
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