12/16/2025
1962: Dr. Hugh Sinclair sounded the alarm on industrial seed oils.
At a time when everyone was terrified of butter, he dared to say the real danger was the new, factory-made fats.
He insisted, “These highly processed oils will damage human health in ways we aren’t prepared for.”
His studies on heart disease patterns were decades ahead of their time — and his early data supported his warning.
But the food industry needed cheap oils, and public-health groups needed a simple enemy.
So Sinclair was sidelined, mocked, called extreme, and erased from the nutritional conversation.
His research sat in archives while seed oils filled every kitchen and grocery shelf.
Sixty years later, his warning reads like prophecy — and many still pretend he wasn’t right.
