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This Canadian scientist just won another award for helping create canola oil. Trump’s pick for health czar says it’s poisoning Americans

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JL;DR SUMMARY Professor Michael Eskin, a renowned food scientist, defends the health benefits of canola oil amidst Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s claims that seed oils are toxic. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.ObesityCanola OilMichael EskinSeed OilsFood ScienceCanadian AgricultureHeart HealthDietary GuidelinesOxidative Stress

Places mentioned

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
"When I came in in 68 to Winnipeg, Canada, they were producing an oil with a markedly different composition."
Canada
"So Europe actually had legislation or the countries had legislation."
Poland
"In the 30s, a Polish farmer, a friend of his who came to Saskatchewan, sent him some seeds and he grew them."
Illinois, United States
"And there was a professor Kumaro at the university of Illinois, who, who petitioned FDA from his research and he told them hydrogenation is very bad."
Saskatchewan, Canada
"In the 30s, a Polish farmer, a friend of his who came to Saskatchewan, sent him some seeds and he grew them and they grew extremely well."
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