Joe Hibbeln: More “Vegetable” Oil? MORE Heart Deaths | Me and My Diabetes.

This is an interview with Joe Hibbeln, a fatty acid biochemist and acting chief of the section on Nutritional NeuroSciences for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the NIH, here talking about his group’s meta-analysis of a data set originally used to promote polyunsaturated fatty acids in diet over saturated fats. His group’s analysis shows a greater rate of mortality in the intervention group given unspecified vegetable oils in place of saturated fat, and he speculates that omega-6 FAs are particularly dangerous.