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Where I live we use sunflower oil because sunflowers are growing here while, let's say, olives -- don't. I suppose Italians would use olive oil as a default variant.
Olives aren't a seed oil though
Yes, that's my point.
That's the other thing that is never mentioned in these food debates, people from a place with a given genetics that have adapted to eating specific locally available foods can do poorly eating what is considered healthy elsewhere
And it’s not just genetics that are local. Gut microbes matter a ton for how you digest food, and it’s determined by where you live and what you eat. The immune system matters too, this is why travelers diarrhea is a thing. And that is also diet dependent: one who doesn’t regularly eat seafood will easily catch viral gastrointestinal infections from eating clams for example.
So there is no single global “healthy diet” for everyone, you got to start from what’s available locally and what your people eat, and tweak that as necessary.
AFAIK based on my own myopic experience, they also use seed oils for frying and alike, except from few very specific oil-based sauces and dishes (e.g. cooking garlic).
Then there can easily be some random Italian Chef that will swear seed oil is the devil and it's turning us gay.
Sunflower oil is just fine for frying, as long as it's refined — otherwise you'll get a shitton of smoke, and burnt particles in the dish. But unrefined oil tastes better in salads.
Idk even what the problem with garlic could be, except of course for the fact that chopped garlic fries very quickly.
Iirc it was just the taste. I was also told to never use virgin oil for cooking as it has a low smoke point. So I only use oil that's been around.
Hmmm, guess I've just never tried garlic fried in anything else, except maybe for butter.