From Medical Xpress:
Edible fats and oils consumed in the U.S., 2017/18. Credit: USDA
New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, and depression.....MUCH MORE
Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible oil in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In all likelihood, it is not healthy for humans.
It certainly is not good for mice. The new study, published this month in the journal Endocrinology, compared mice fed three different diets high in fat: soybean oil, soybean oil modified to be low in linoleic acid, and coconut oil.
The same UCR research team found in 2015 that soybean oil induces obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and fatty liver in mice. Then in a 2017 study, the same group learned that if soybean oil is engineered to be low in linoleic acid, it induces less obesity and insulin resistance....
The food crowd says their processing (including fermentation) reduces or eliminates the toxicity but sometimes I wonder.
And putting that aside, headlines such as this one at EurekAlert should at least give one pause:
Soybean oil causes more obesity than coconut oil and fructose
