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The Great Seed Oil Panic

The podcast addresses the controversy surrounding seed oils, questioning claims of their toxicity and exploring their actual health effects. Eric Decker, a professor at the Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, clarifies that seed oils like soybean and corn oil are...

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