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In the 1980s, the cigarette industry began consolidating the food industry. By 1990, Philip Morris and RJ Reynolds owned 50% of the US food supply. They used their scientists to make food more addictive through ultra-processed foods. They also allegedly co-opted USDA and HHS nutrition guidelines to promote carbs at the base of the food pyramid. The speaker claims this led to an explosion in ultra-processed food consumption. The speaker notes that the Surgeon General advised against smoking in 1986 due to cancer rates. The speaker suggests that cancer rates have exploded since the cigarette industry moved into the food industry. The speaker jokes that cigarette companies would be healthier if they went back to making cigarettes.

Speaker 0: I thought it'd be great to just kind of look at some of these items because parents are encountering these food items in grocery stores everywhere. Maybe we could just start right here with seed oils. We're hearing a lot about seed oils. Why should people be worried about these kind of products? Speaker 1: "Seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods. Seed oils, The reason they're in the foods is because they're heavily subsidized. They're very very cheap but they are associated with all kinds of very very serious illnesses including body wide inflammation Right. Which affects all of our health. It's one of the worst things you can eat, and it's almost impossible to avoid. If you eat any processed food, you're gonna be eating seed oil."

In the late 1800s, cottonseed and corn oil became popular as cooking oils due to new extraction methods. Procter and Gamble's Crisco, made from cottonseed oil, was heavily marketed as a healthier alternative to animal fats. The American Heart Association promoted vegetable oils over saturated fats in the 1960s to prevent heart disease, despite limited evidence. This led to a significant increase in vegetable oil consumption, making it the most significant dietary change in history. Today, a third of our diet consists of oils from factories.

In the 1960s and 70s, health experts advised reducing saturated fats from animal products due to studies linking them to increased cholesterol and heart disease risk. Seed oils, high in polyunsaturated fats, emerged as healthier alternatives. This led to a widespread adoption of seed oils, with margarine replacing butter and increased use in processed foods like salad dressings, chips, and cookies. This dietary shift raised concerns about the potential harm of consuming large amounts of seed oils and omega-6 fatty acids, especially if the oils are improperly manufactured or contain impurities like trans fats or oxidized fats.

After working on political campaigns, the speaker learned that the food industry, specifically the processed food industry, was created by the cigarette industry. In the 1990s, facing scrutiny, RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris used their cash to buy food companies. These companies shifted scientists from making cigarettes addictive to creating ultra-processed foods. They also transferred their lobbying playbook to the food sector, influencing institutions to promote the food pyramid, which advocated for carbs and sugar. This led to a significant shift in the American diet towards ultra-processed foods, now comprising 70% of a child's diet. These foods contain ingredients designed to be addictive, leading to increased calorie consumption and health issues. The foundation of this diet consists of added sugars, processed grains, and seed oils. Seed oils, now the top source of American calories, were initially a byproduct of oil production and promoted for human consumption despite being inflammatory. The speaker claims the food industry aims to make food cheap and addictive, not to harm Americans.

"Seed oils are called polyunsaturated fatty acids." "Poly meaning many." "Unsaturated mean a type of oil that it's very very fragile and unstable." "Now the first thing you need to know is that when they talk about vegetable oils they're really talking about seed oils." "It comes from corn, soy, canola, things like that." "They're considered one part of the ultra processed food category which they use industrial processing where they're heating, adding hexane, which is a solvent that's in gasoline." "And so they go through this incredible refining process where you end up with this very refined empty oil." "And one of the reasons they do this is so it can sit on the shelf for a long period of time." "We consume like 25 to 30% of our calories with this right here."

The speaker claims the tobacco industry applied their expertise in addiction to food production, creating ultra-processed foods that lack satiability, leading to overconsumption. They state that almost 1,000 chemicals in American foods are banned in Europe and elsewhere, and that these novel chemicals are poorly processed by the body. The speaker notes a significant increase in chronic disease since their uncle's presidency, when 6% of Americans had chronic diseases and there was no budget for it. Now, chronic disease costs $4.3 trillion, five times the military budget. Pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and hospitals profit from this. The speaker asserts that the medical advice we receive is compromised due to corporate capture.

America has an addiction crisis related to food, which is profitable for big food companies whose objective is to create cheap, addictive food. Almost every chronic condition shortening American lives is tied to food. Ultra-processed food makes up 70% of our diet and is weaponized with sugar, seed oils, and processed grains. The speaker claims the food market is rigged, and while working for the food industry, they helped pay off regulators, the media, lawmakers, and researchers to promote ultra-processed food as healthy. Coca-Cola allegedly pays organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics. The food industry is purportedly taking away humans' innate sense of what's good for them, hiring scientists from tobacco companies to shift them over to food science. Ultra-processed food is a science experiment that hijacks our evolutionary biology, making food addictive and normalized.

In this Wide Awake Media podcast conversation, host Didi Denslow and guest Ivor Cummins—a biochemical engineer, nutrition expert known as the Fat Emperor—discuss health paradigms, seed oils, geopolitics, and emerging technologies, with a recurring emphasis on waking up to structured power dynamics. Seeds oils and the “devil’s triad” - Cummins presents a framework he calls the “devil’s triad” to explain modern obesity and diabetes trends: sugars, refined grains or refined tweeds, and seed oils. He cites American data indicating 64% of adults over 45 are prediabetic or diabetic, suggesting the triad drives these conditions. Cutting out sugars, refined carbohydrates, and seed oils is portrayed as a path to reversing obesity and diabetes epidemics. - Seed oils are described as being extracted with hexane and solvents under high heat/pressure. They include sunflower, safflower, rapeseed (and other seed-derived oils). He states they are high in omega-6 fats, used as signaling molecules in inflammatory processes, and should be kept to very low dietary levels (current US intake around 15% of calories versus a recommended under 0.5%). He notes issues in processing: hydrogenation and molecular damage, plus deodorizing, bleaching, and color adjustments that mask natural signals to avoid consumption. - He contrasts seed oils with natural fats from real foods: olives (olive oil), animal fats like lard and tallow, and butter, which are deemed acceptable. He references historical and industry context: seed oils originated from lubricants used in engines (and later hydrogenated for food), with Crisco marking their rise; he attributes a shift in public health trends to decisions in the mid- to late-20th century, including influential thoughts by Ancel Keys on saturated fats. - The discussion also touches the economics and incentives: seed oils are cheap, shelf-stable, and favored by global supply chains and processed foods; this is linked to industry strategies and ties between food, pharma, and academic funding. Some guests’ positions align on seed oils as a major driver of chronic disease, though Cummins also acknowledges the role of refined carbohydrates and sugars. Diet, personal change, and practical guidance - The host shares personal experience: eliminating seed oils improved health, including belly fat reduction. - Repertoire of alternative fats suggested includes high-quality olive oil, coconut oil, tallow, lard from well-raised pigs (with caveats about omega-6 content), and avocado oil as a more expensive option. Geopolitics, digital identity, and cultural shifts - Digital ID and civil liberties: Ireland’s progress toward digital ID is discussed, illustrating a “boiling frog” dynamic: government IDs exist but may become mandatory over time. Cummins underscores civil disobedience, awareness, and lobbying as means to resist, arguing that politicians report to higher, unelected networks. He asserts EU structures (EU Commission, European Parliament) mimic Soviet-era governance, creating a centralized power apparatus. - Hate speech law in Ireland: Cummins describes an earlier hate speech framework (1986 incitement to hatred) as effective, and a proposed newer framework with broad, protected classes as a potential threat to civil rights, warning that the pre-crime model resembles Minority Report, 1984, and Brave New World. He suggests public scrutiny of whom politicians report to. - Global networks and governance: The conversation invokes a historical view of global power networks (Rhodes, Milner, Rothschilds, Rockefellers) and institutions like the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, and the CIA. Cummins sees these organizations as orchestrating global policy and economy, with a current sense of tension due to BRICS dynamics, shifting American leadership, and challenges to the old oligarchies. - Immigration and demographic strategy: He cites Denmark, Hungary, Poland, and Switzerland as examples with restrictive immigration policies and self-sufficiency requirements. Denmark, for instance, is highlighted for its stringent residency rules and crime data transparency on migrants. He contrasts Ireland’s relatively permissive approach to immigration with these models, discussing the Kalergi Plan as a shorthand for a demographic strategy, and argues there has been a deliberate, years-long push to alter European demographics, partly framed by climate discourse and social narratives. - Climate narrative and AI: Cummins notes perceived weaknesses in the climate-change narrative, acknowledging growing awareness and industry signals that climate policies may be economically unsustainable. He predicts data centers and AI infrastructure will continue to drive energy demand, while asserting AI is a tool with significant rote-task capability but no true sentience. He argues the public is increasingly skeptical about climate catastrophism, while acknowledging the real-world shift toward data-driven, centralized control. Solutions and events - Awareness and education are repeatedly stressed as essential first steps. Cummins envisions a non-conspiratorial, docudrama-style approach to explain power politics and history, aiming to reach a mass audience with credible, non-fringe framing. - Concrete steps discussed include focusing on Denmark-like models for immigration policy, local and national political engagement (email campaigns to MPs, peaceful in-person events like Ireland’s IRL forum), and media reform initiatives to counterbalance globalist influence. - He promotes practical financial preparedness (physical gold and silver) as protective measures amid expected market volatility and potential fiat-currency depreciation. Closing note - The interview ends with a reiteration to avoid seed oils, stay awake, and engage in informed civic action. The speakers emphasize a broad, systemic view of health, governance, and technology, urging proactive public discourse and engagement to influence policy directions.

And we have something that is unique in human history. We have people who are obese who are at the same time malnourished because the food that we're eating does not is is not nutrient dense anymore. I was involved in tobacco litigation back in the 1980s, late 1980s, and the tobacco companies at that point were the most cash rich companies on earth and they saw the writing on the wall. They saw the regulatory headwinds, and their consumers were were walking away from their product, and they decided to diversify. So they started buying up the food companies. By the mid nineteen nineties, the two biggest food companies in the world were RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris, and they transferred thousands of scientists that were engaged in making tobacco more addictive to do the same thing with food.

In 1911, Procter and Gamble introduced Crisco, a new cooking oil made from cottonseed. It quickly gained popularity, leading to a decline in the use of traditional fats like butter and lard. However, this shift coincided with a rise in heart disease. The American Heart Association, funded by Procter and Gamble, recommended a low saturated fat diet in 1961, further promoting the use of corn and soy oil. Even today, organizations like the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association receive funding from big food and pharmaceutical companies. It's unlikely that these organizations will recommend avoiding the very foods that support their financial interests.

The transcript discusses seed oils as a major health risk and part of a so-called “devil’s triad” contributing to obesity and diabetes. It asserts that a large share of U.S. adults over 45 are prediabetic or diabetic—64% by some data, rising to 75–78% if insulin use were measured—and claims that removing three factors—sugars, refined grains or refined tweeds, and seed oils—would eliminate the obesity and diabetes epidemics; pharmaceutical companies would suffer as a result. Seed oils are described as being extracted with hexane and solvents under very high temperature and pressure in chemical plants. What are marketed as heart-healthy golden vegetable oils (sunflower, safflower, and other seed oils) are said to be processed with high temperature and pressure, resulting in oils that are very high in omega-6 fats, which are suggested to be inflammatory signal molecules and should only be eaten in tiny amounts as calories. The speaker claims Americans get about 15% of their calories from seed oils, versus a recommended less than 0.5%; this is described as 30 times the evolutionary level and very damaging. Further, the process is criticized for hydrogenation, damage to molecular structures, deodorization, bleaching, and coloring to give a desirable appearance and scent, after which the oils are sold. The speaker asserts that hydrogenation and processing produce “rank grey rancid muck,” and that people would be repulsed by the initial oil before deodorization. The transcript asserts that seed oils are extremely damaging in quantity, especially in processed foods, while refined carbohydrates are also highly damaging. It cites studies from the late 1990s on rat models comparing seed oils with beef tallow and lard, finding major increases in tumorigenesis and tumor growth when seed oils were included at 3–4% of the diet. It claims that from around 1993 to 1999, studies increasingly showed that seed oils drive cancer if consumed above three to four percent, but that around 1998–1999 the system stopped these findings after calls were made. The speaker concludes: “All the evidence is there. That's the tip of the iceberg. Don't touch them.”

Many heavily processed, unhealthy foods contain sugars, artificial additives, and are low in fiber and high in salt. Seed oils are often consumed through these unhealthy foods in both the UK and the US, which is a cause for concern. While it's true that many foods containing seed oils are unhealthy, the speaker disagrees with the idea that the seed oil itself is the primary cause of the unhealthiness. It's important to distinguish between the seed oil and the overall health impact of the processed foods in which they are found.

A dietitian on the Diary of a CEO podcast claimed there's no evidence seed oils are harmful and that they're actually beneficial. This contradicts studies like the Sydney Diet Heart Study, the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, and the Rose Corn Oil Study, which suggest replacing saturated fat with seed oils leads to worse health outcomes, increased mortality, and increased cardiovascular disease. Proponents claim seed oils reduce inflammation, improve insulin sensitivity, and are heart healthy, while opponents argue the opposite: that they increase inflammation, induce insulin resistance, and contribute to cardiovascular disease. The process of making canola oil involves grinding seeds, heating them, treating them with the neurotoxin hexane, then bleaching and deodorizing the rancid oil. This process, along with high-temperature cooking, creates inflammatory compounds. The speaker prefers using ghee and tallow for cooking instead of seed oils.

It's nearly impossible to find non-processed healthy food in a regular grocery store because 75% of the store is processed sugar and seed oils. Fried banana chips, local fried corn treats, roasted nuts, tortillas, yogurts, flavored milks, and energy drinks are full of seed oils and processed sugar. The speaker asks, where are the animal fats? The meat counter is about the only spot in the whole store where you can easily avoid processed sugars and seed oils. This is why so many people are sick and unhealthy.

Before 1950, heart disease was rare and obesity affected less than 10% of Americans. Procter and Gamble had a waste product, cottonseed oil, which they hydrogenated and named Crisco. They then gave the American Heart Association $1,700,000. Subsequently, butter became the enemy, and seed oils were considered heart healthy. Hospitals replaced butter with margarine, and home cooks swapped lard for vegetable oil. Within a generation, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates increased dramatically.

Speaker 0 raises concern about seed oils. "Seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods." "Seed oils, The reason they're in the foods is because they're heavily subsidized. They're very very cheap but they are associated with all kinds of very very serious illnesses including body wide inflammation Right. Which affects all of our health. It's one of the worst things you can eat, and it's almost impossible to avoid." "If you eat any processed food, you're gonna be eating seed oil." The speaker emphasizes the prevalence of seed oils in processed foods today.

Speaker 0 argues that the American Heart Association used money to spend decades fabricating a huge pile of evidence to support the idea that cholesterol causes heart attacks, and that this pile of evidence is nonsense. He notes that some very smart scientists who have sifted through it have come to the same conclusion, that there is nothing here and no evidence. He adds that when you cut out vegetable oils and eat healthier foods, very likely your total cholesterol levels will go up, and your doctor will tell you to stop following this diet that’s improving your health and transforming your life. He warns it may scare you into taking a statin drug, which he calls one of the most dangerous drugs out there. He mentions that there is a whole chapter in Dark Calories about this so you can fortify your knowledge, and that you have to know more than your doctor because doctors are miseducated.