Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

I'm not obese. I have a family history of obesity. On the contrary, I am a bit underweight, and I have tried very hard to gain weight and have never managed to accomplish much. What are obese people eating that I'm not eating? What foods are high in soybean oil?

TLDR; I spent way too long thinking about this in the short time I looked at it. I still want to post my rambling but at the same time take it all with a good dash of salt.

That title though. Why does the UoC feel the need to use clickbait titles?

I guess it becomes a mouthful when it is "America's most consumed cooking oil, which is soybean oil, causes genetic changes in the brain."

But my first though is ... I've never bought soybean oil afaik. Is soybean oil vegetable oil? Because I buy vegetable oil.

Ah clarification later in the post "Additionally, the team notes the findings only apply to soybean oil — not to other soy products or to other vegetable oils."

The difficult part is that most of the things I consume that use soybean oil I don't have a choice in what oil they used. Sure I can not eat those chicken nuggets but the easier solution would be to change the manufacturing process to use something better right?

It is indeed frequently sold as "Vegetable Oil", which is a generic term.

However, if you read the Ingredients, you'll find that most Vegetable oils are composed of mostly, or pure, Soybean Oil.

Do you have a source for the claim that most studies done in mice don’t hold up? As far as I know, mice are quite a good proxy, although there are some differences. It seems like it would be a complete waste of time to study mice if most results didn’t hold.

Looks like generic "vegetable oil" is soybean oil. That explains it.