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ZOE & misinformation about seed oils

In Summary

* I have received many emails from readers about recent claims in the media that seed oils are not harmful and that, on the contrary, they can reduce heart disease. The common factor in the media stories is Professor Sarah Berry. Berry is the chief scientist at ZOE Limited.

* This note explains what ZOE Limited is and gives some background to its meteoric rise.

* It reviews a podcast between Berry and Jonathan Wolf, who is the CEO and one of the founders of ZOE. The podcast is called “Seed oils may lower your risk of heart disease.”

* Berry presented four arguments that people use for saying that seed oils are toxic and then set out to debunk these.

* This note reviews the four arguments and the debunks and invites you to decide whether you have been convinced that seed oils are healthful, rather than harmful.

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