Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on seed oils: warns against

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Americans are “being unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and has called them “one of the driving causes of the obesity epidemic,” per reporting on his October 2024 Instagram and X posts (via ASEAN Now) and a December 2024 Beacon Journal/USA Today opinion piece.

Kennedy’s stated reasoning is that industrially processed seed oils — canola, corn, sunflower, soybean — are a modern dietary introduction linked to obesity and chronic disease, and that traditional solid fats (tallow, butter, lard) are preferable. The new Dietary Guidelines reflect that shift. (No medical advice is given here; Kennedy’s claims about seed oils are contested by mainstream nutrition research.)

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