Butter is far less healthy for people than vegetable oils extracted from seeds said a paper from researchers at Harvard University published in JAMA Internal Medicine published by the American Medical Association.
It clashes with Robert F. Kennedy’s claims that “seed oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients that we have in foods and the reason they’re in the foods is that they’re heavily subsidized.” Kennedy is United States secretary of health and human services.
He said that in an October 2024 interview on Fox & Friends.
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But Harvard said consuming plant-based oils such as canola oil is much healthier than butter.
In fact, it can prevent premature death, the study said,
“Women and men who were free of cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes or neurodegenerative disease at baseline were included,” wrote lead researcher Yu Zhang from the Harvard School of Public Health’s department of epidemiology.
“After adjusting for potential confounders, the highest butter intake was associated with a 15 per cent higher risk of total mortality compared to the lowest intake,” says the paper.
“In contrast, the highest intake of total plant-based oils compared to the lowest intake was associated with a 16 percent lower total mortality. There was a statistically significant association between higher intakes of canola, soybean, and olive oils and lower total mortality.”
