Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is expected to clear the final hurdles in his confirmation as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, and a host of health influencers have proclaimed that widely used ...

Kennedy has said these vegetable oils — extracted from the seeds of plants, like canola, soybean and safflower — are poisoning Americans and driving the obesity epidemic. Part of the evidence he ...

Zhao is a Takemi fellow at Harvard and assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. For decades, mainstream nutrition guidelines have recommended that Americans replace animal fats like butter ...

Rates of chronic diseases have spiked in recent decades. Over the same time period, the food supply has shifted toward more use of oils made from seeds, such as canola and soybean. However, seed-oil ...

A new food bogeyman is making headlines in the nutrition world: oils, such as canola, corn, and soybean, that are extracted from the seeds of edible plants. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new U.S.

In his efforts to Make America Healthy Again (better known as the MAHA campaign), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rioting against seed oils. The movement has gained significant attention across social media, ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. There’s been a ton of buzz around seed oils over the past few years. Indeed, a November 2024 survey conducted by the International ...

Seed oils are just what they sound like: cooking oils that come from seeds. There are many types of seed oil, and each one has its own flavor and aroma. They have high smoke points, which means ...

By now, you might have heard that seed oils are bad for you — if not from social media wellness influencers, then from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. himself. Kennedy has said these vegetable ...

Matt Fuchs lives in Maryland and writes about health, science, and technology. Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Yevgen Romanenko—Getty Images, Khanet Janngam—Getty Images, ...