Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
&gt; The same UC Riverside research team found in 2015 that soybean oil induces obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, and fatty liver in mice. Then in a 2017 study, the same group learned that if soybean oil is engineered to be low in linoleic acid, it induces less obesity and insulin resistance.<p>&gt; “The hypothalamus regulates body weight via your <i>metabolism, maintains body temperature,</i> is critical for reproduction and physical growth as well as your response to stress,”<p>Italics mine.<p>Linoleic acid is what induces torpor (hibernation) in mammals. We are mammals. People in the modern world are possibly something like half hibernating, inclusive of mental effects and of course the effect on difficult-to-remove-weight. The rise in Soybean oil consumption is an enormous change in the human diet over the last 50 years. The scale of it replacing so many fats, especially formerly animal fats, is just huge.<p>See: <i>Humans and Hibernating Mammals React to The Same Amount of Dietary Linoleic Acid in the Same Way. By Becoming Torpid.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fireinabottle.net&#x2F;humans-and-hibernating-mammals-react-to-the-same-amount-of-dietary-linoleic-acid-in-the-same-way-by-becoming-torpid&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fireinabottle.net&#x2F;humans-and-hibernating-mammals-rea...</a><p>(I submitted that article because I think its worth its own discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30456454" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30456454</a>)