Do Seed Oils Cause Heart Attacks?

David Gornoski asked me to write this for Dr. Robert Malone.

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Here are the first few paragraphs of the piece as published on Dr. Malone’s Substack, and all of the references.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and industrial countries around the world. This is hardly news, but what is not widely understood is that this has not always been the case.

Even as recently as the early 20^th Century in the United States and United Kingdom, what we now call atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) was unusual. If you find this hard to believe, consider that while a comprehensive list of causes of death was first commenced in 1836 in the U.K., and an International Causes of Death list (building upon the previous work from several nations) was created in 1893, it wasn’t until 1930 that coronary disease was included as a cause (Strong, 1936), 18 years after it was first described (Herrick, 1912). Heart disease previously had been ‘rheumatic’, or caused by damage from infection.

And lest you think that this was a result of incompetence, lack of attention, or increasing lifespan, the foremost cardiologist of the 20^th Century, Dr. Paul Dudley White, goes through all these possibilities in his 1971 “Perspectives” (60 years after graduating from medical school) and dismissed them all; ultimately noting that it must be some change in the lifestyle, as children dying before their parents of this novel disease became common.

“The automobile, richer food, more tobacco, a faster life, and more pollution of everything have become available to all of us in the United States.” (White, 1971)

“What has been most disturbing is the fact that the children appear to be afflicted with coronary disease at a much earlier age than were their parents.” (Levine, 1963)

Do Seed Oils Cause Heart Attacks?

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