I was going to post this in Nutrition Q/A, but I don’t really have a question… because I’m pretty sure nuts and seeds are healthier than nut and seed oils. Just bored.
So I just finished listening to the podcast about seed oils. So there’s data pointing to replacing saturated fat from animal sources with seed oils results in improved health outcomes. Cool. So seed oil isn’t “bad” relative to animal-derived saturated fats; in fact, it’s preferable. But still, it would probably be even healthier to replace those seed oils with actual whole nuts and seeds, I would assume? So people that are avoiding seed oils in favor of animal fats would be making a poor choice for their health, but if you were avoiding seed oils and instead just eating whole seeds and nuts, that would be an improvement (I would assume). If not, I guess that would imply no real health difference between seed oils and seeds/nuts, and might as well just cook everything in oil (assuming caloric intake were the same), but I would imagine that nuts and seeds being whole foods would have those whole food benefits like how eating whole fruits and vegetables has more health-promoting compounds than eating/drinking fruit and vegetable juice.
I was just thinking about how once you make an improvement, it eventually becomes a new normal, and then there are more things to improve, and what was considered normal is now bad, and the thing that was the improvement is now normal. For example, research on alcohol intakes and recommendations for alcohol changing to recommend less and less alcohol over time.