Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
What happened in 1921? Or is this one of those baseless "before we had cancer" comments?
Palm oil favors tumor expansion
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#32Take one look at the modern production process for vegetable oil and this sort of effect is starting you right in the face. Palm, Canola, Rapeseed, Soybean, etc, they're all terrible. I avoid this shit like the plague.
Mind elaborating? Without specific details it reeks of the naturalistic fallacy or the "good old days".
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#33Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
(about is all simplified of course)
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#36Yet another thing on the cancerogenic pile sigh At some point you have to ask yourself if everything but water gives us cancer.
If I couldn't grow it or raise it 100 years ago, I don't want to eat it. Open to being convinced otherwise.
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#37Take one look at the modern production process for vegetable oil and this sort of effect is starting you right in the face. Palm, Canola, Rapeseed, Soybean, etc, they're all terrible. I avoid this shit like the plague.
I know I'm still consuming it when I eat in a restaurant. Best you can currently do is just not buy it for home use.
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#40Well, this study passes the "we dumped a bunch of X on cancer cells in a petri dish and they did a funny thing" red flag test. Xenographs (implanting human cancer cells into mice) have their own caveats (the immune system is almost always severely compromised), but this seems like a cool study. I'm no expert on oral cancers however. Curious to see the implication of the neuronal cells here, I'm looking forward to rea…
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5682332/#B81