The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
Eating excess amounts of linoleic acid -most commonly from seed oils-(best estimates are that we ate around 2% of our calories as LA as hunter gatherers based on living tribes today) puts you at an increased risk of cardiovascular disease by leading to increased oxidized LDL (and increased Lp(a)).
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And then we know from studies like this one that hey, in people who have atherosclerosis, there's a lot more propensity for those lesions to have high levels of oxidation or the LDL to oxidize when the LDL particles are enriched in in uh linoleic acid.
what lowers LP little a saturated fat what raises LP little a seed oils how anyone can ignore that with regard to seed oils and cardiovascular risk is beyond me