Soybean Oil-Rich Diet Can Hurt Your Gut Health, Potentially Leading to Colitis: Study

Soybean Oil-Rich Diet Can Hurt Your Gut Health, Potentially Leading to Colitis: Study
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Hold onto your stir-fry pans! New research has sizzled its way onto the food scene, suggesting a diet high in soybean oil might not be as gut-friendly as previously thought.

Soybean oil, by far the most widely consumed and produced edible oil in the United States, has been linked to ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, according to a new study (pdf).