Why I Don’t Eat in Restaurants

Nick Howarth

Published on: 10/12/2025

There’s a quiet villain in the modern diet. It’s not sugar this time (although sugar is never innocent). It’s not carbs (those guys have their own crimes to answer for). No — today’s culprit is far slipperier. Literally. We’re talking about seed oils: canola, sunflower, soybean, grapeseed, corn oil, rice bran oil… the whole industrial cocktail. The very oils your grandmother never used, your great-grandmother never heard of, and your biology never evolved to handle.