Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us? We Swapped Them In for Animal Fats 50 Years Ago

Our switch from cooking with animal fats—like butter—to cooking with vegetable oils runs back more than fifty years. It was thought that this would lower cholesterol and the rate of heart attacks. Has switching to vegetable oils benefited our health overall, or is the trend going the other way? Dr. Joseph Mercola says that “suga...