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For any kind of nutrient, saying that it is good or bad, without saying at which daily intake that is true, is totally meaningless.

Any essential nutrient, whose absence from your food can kill you, can also become a poison over a certain daily intake. For certain essential nutrients, the difference between the optimum daily intake and the lethal daily intake may be quite small, e.g. for selenium.

In the case of linoleic acid, it is likely that 10 g/day is very healthy, but 50 g/day is very unhealthy. It is not known for sure where the threshold between healthy and unhealthy lays, but it might be between 20 g/day and 30 g/day.

Most of the cheapest vegetable oils contain between 60% and 80% of linoleic acid.

With all kinds of industrially-made food containing large amounts of cheap oils, it has become very easy to eat too much linoleic acid per day, without being aware, like also too much sugar.




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