Excess calories from vegetable oils can negatively affect signaling pathways in fat cell differentiation, increase hunger via cannabinoid receptors, and decrease basal metabolic rate by impacting thyroid hormones.

“These are excess calories that can affect signaling pathways in the differentiation of fat cells that can make you hungrier at the level of your brain and your cannabinoid receptors, and that can affect your thyroid hormones in a negative way, also decreasing your basal metabolic rate.”