Scientists have discovered a possible explanation as to how soybean oil , the most widely used cooking oil in the United States, leads to obesity just in time for the Trump administration’s new guidance on nutrition standards expected before the end of the year.

Soybean oil and other seed oils have been a target of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the Make America Healthy Again movement, which focuses on diet as the source of chronic diseases like obesity and heart disease, but the exact mechanism of how soybean oil contributes to obesity has not been well understood.

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