The highly processed vegetable oils we eat a lot of today—like soy and canola oil—can cause damage inside our cells because they break down easily and lack protective nutrients, which might mess with...

Over the last 50 years, the fat stored in our bodies has changed—more of it comes from processed vegetable oils, which might be changing how our body burns energy.

When cells are stressed by too many processed oils, they may switch from burning fat to burning sugar—even when oxygen is available—similar to how cancer cells get energy, which might be a survival tactic that backfires for the whole body.

Eating a lot of seed oils over a long time causes a type of fat called linoleic acid to build up in your body fat, which then triggers ongoing internal damage to your cells.

Dietary intake of linoleic acid from seed oils correlates with increased accumulation of linoleic acid in human adipose tissue over time.