STAT February 12, 2025
Critics of corn, canola, and similar oils find fertile ground in a nation beset by chronic disease and rising distrust
You’re reading the first story in The MAHA Diagnosis, a STAT series that examines the major elements of the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When guests at the Make America Healthy Again inaugural ball sat down for dinner last month at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington, D.C., they were greeted with menus featuring butternut squash salad, a choice between a prime filet and lobster dish and a vegetarian chickpea option, and three words sure to appeal to many involved with the movement: “No seed oils.”
Seed oils is a recently coined term that refers...