{"id":101222,"date":"2020-01-22T11:24:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/americas-most-widely-consumed-oil-causes-genetic-changes-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2020-01-22T11:24:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T19:24:34","slug":"americas-most-widely-consumed-oil-causes-genetic-changes-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/americas-most-widely-consumed-oil-causes-genetic-changes-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s most widely consumed oil causes genetic changes in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, anxiety, and depression.<\/p>\n<p>Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible oil in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In all likelihood, it is not healthy for humans.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly is not good for mice. The new study, published this month in the journal <em>Endocrinology<\/em>, compared mice fed three different diets high in fat: soybean oil, soybean oil modified to be low in linoleic acid, and coconut oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like autism, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, anxiety, and depression. Used for fast food frying, added to packaged foods, and fed to livestock, soybean oil is by far the most widely produced and consumed edible oil in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}