Stop Blaming Seed Oils: The Real Factors Behind Rising Colon Cancer Rates
The Consistency Project
EC Synkowski
4.9 • 562 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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We're discussing the potential link between seed oils and rising colon cancer rates. We explore the complexities of dietary fats and the importance of focusing on whole, unprocessed foods to improve health outcomes.
After you listen, you'll understand that while seed oils are often blamed, the real factors influencing colon cancer risk are more related to overall diet and lifestyle choices. 🔗 Get full show notes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast. My name is Patrick Cummings. As always, I'm here with E.C. Sinkowski. Every week on the show, we am to simplify the science of nutrition, health, and fitness, cutting through the noise to focus on the principles and practices that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello, EC. How the heck are you? Good. How are you doing? I'm wonderful. It's good to see you. It's good to be here. Thanks everybody for tuning in. |
| 0:40.5 | We're going to talk this time around about the potential link between seed oils, inflammation, and colon cancer risk. |
| 0:49.6 | The big question we are aiming to answer with this episode, how concerned should we be about |
| 0:55.9 | seed oils in our diet when it comes to colon cancer risk? |
| 1:00.3 | So let's jump right in. |
| 1:01.8 | Where did this idea come from? |
| 1:04.0 | Why are we tackling it this time around? |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.2 | Well, thanks to Marco. |
| 1:08.4 | He kind of sent in the whole idea here. |
| 1:10.7 | Although I did see this getting floated around the news media. Yeah. Well, thanks to Marco. He kind of sent in the whole idea here. Although I did see this |
| 1:12.1 | getting floated around the news media blogosphere in December. It certainly got a lot of press coverage. So |
| 1:20.0 | he has sent me this article, but there's a couple different ones out there. One of them, |
| 1:24.4 | the headline in Science Daily, was ultra--process foods may drive colorectal cancer |
| 1:29.3 | risk study finds. |
| 1:31.5 | And then in the scientific American journal, the title was kind of ultra-processed foods, |
| 1:35.4 | high in seed oils could be fueling colon cancer risk. |
| 1:38.3 | So he was kind of writing in being like, hey, took a look at these articles. |
| 1:41.9 | He also tracked down the science study and was like, I don't really |
| 1:44.2 | understand how they're making this conclusion. So that's really the topic today. Shout out to Marco. |
| 1:48.7 | I know. I know. Yeah. It was awesome. But what is kind of the link between the seed oils and colon |
| 1:54.0 | cancer risk and what if anything to do about it. Now, what's interesting about this is that colon |
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