Paul Saladino· MD
Before the introduction of vegetable oils in 1911, heart disease was exceedingly rare.
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Before the introduction of vegetable oils in 1911, heart disease was exceedingly rare.
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heart disease deaths versus saturated fat or vegetable oil and for those who cannot see this there is an extraordinary correlation between heart disease deaths in the united states and vegetable oils which have gone both have gone up up and up
and again this is observational data we can't draw causative inference but there's a striking correlation between vegetable oil consumption and heart disease deaths