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Comment by ericmcer | Hacker News Reader

Things like this are so nit picky and nuanced it really isn’t worth caring about unless you are already doing everything else right.

People ignore low hanging fruit in their quest for health, like analyzing vegetable oils is pointless when you still eat tons of sugar, don’t sleep enough, don’t exercise, drink too much, etc.

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>analyzing vegetable oils is pointless

On a personal scale perhaps. On a commercial scale though - similar to what happened to trans fats - and given how much vegetable oil is in processed food, a conclusive result could have a monumental impact on the food supply

there is low hanging fruit, sure, but a substantial amount of our food - even things that you might assume are 'healthy' - are loaded with these terrible oils. autism/adhd/neurodivergence is skyrocketing, as-are late-stage health problems like alzheimers and parkinsons. all of this is pretty well correlated with the rise of our race-to-the-bottom agricultural practices involving pesticides like glyphosate and mass cultivation of crops for seed oils.

this should not be ignored.

There have been some studies recently screening older people who grew up with more restrictive diagnostic criteria for autism that suggest that increasing rates of autism diagnosis are likely purely the result of changing diagnostic criteria and increased awareness rather than increased prevalence of austism.

polio affected 8-37 out of 100000 people between 1940 and 1950 and everyone remembers it. CDC has identird 11 communities with 1 out of 36 8 year old children have been diagnosed with autism in 2020. Estimates place roughly 1/3 of those have less than 70 IQ. So let's say 1 out of 108 children.

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