When you eat seed oils, they stick around in your body and their levels have gone way up since the 1950s — just like how much we’ve been eating them.
Scientific Claim
Dietary intake of linoleic acid from seed oils correlates with increased accumulation of linoleic acid in human adipose tissue over time.
Original Statement
“When you consume these oils, they don't just pass straight through you. They get absorbed into your blood, your organs, and into every cell in your body. A key analysis found that linoleic acid, which is one of these polyunsaturated fatty acids, has increased in US adults fat tissue by over 133% from 1959 to 2008. And this directly mirrors the rise in seed oil consumption.”
Context Details
Domain
nutrition
Population
human
Subject
dietary linoleic acid from seed oils
Action
correlates with
Target
increased accumulation in human adipose tissue
Intervention Details
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (0)
Contradicting (1)
This study found that mice fed vegetable oils (like peanut oil) stored more fat than those fed a little lard, but it didn’t measure whether the oils made more linoleic acid build up in fat tissue—so we can’t say for sure if the claim is right or wrong.