2 weeks Ago By Marina Zhang
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared it was time to “make frying oil tallow again,” he reignited a sizzling debate simmering in nutrition circles for years.
The new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has expressed concerns about seed oils, ubiquitous ingredients in processed foods, from coffee creamers to deep fryers.
“Seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods,” Kennedy said on “Fox and Friends” in August 2024.“They’re very, very cheap, but they are associated with all kinds of very serious illnesses, including body-wide inflammation, which affects all of our health. It’s one of the worst things you could eat, and it’s almost impossible to avoid.
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