Adipose tissue linoleic acid levels increased from 9.1% in 1959 to 21.5% in 2008, correlating with a rise in obesity.

“so their diet is about two percent total pufa now that's omega-6 and omega-3 together so i don't know exactly what their omega-6 is but it's probably about one percent maybe one and a half percent but in 1959 the our adipose linoleic acid this is omega-6 9.1 percent 1959. and remember where our obesity was in 1959 13 and where were we in 2008 with our linoleic acid in our fat 21 and a half percent and in 2008 our obesity was something like 34 somewhere there”

“adipose tissue linoleic acid has increased by 136 percent over the last half century in the united states this increase is highly correlated with an increase in dietary linoleic acid intake over the same period of time”

“look at this graphic showing the massive increase in seed oil consumption in the last 110 years specifically focus on the massive increase in seed oils since over the same time period obesity rates went from around 11.9 percent to over 43 percent in the united states obesity and overweight is now over 70 percent of the us population this correlation is too much to ignore”