Sometimes I wish Mic would drop the oil free talk to broaden his environmental messages.
I don't. He challenged me and I'm glad he did. I'm very glad he did his "oil, the vegan killer" videos, it helped to inform me more and influenced my decision to give up on isolated oils.
Leaving aside every single point Mic makes in his videos on oil (and in my estimation, they are all excellent), he is missing a simple one:
All energy that is not glucose takes the B complex vitamins and certain minerals to metabolize it and turn it into energy. Refined sugar has none of those B vitamins or minerals at 4 calories per gram. Oil has none of those B vitamins and minerals at 9 calories per gram.
Wikipedia "empty calorie" said:
The error of considering energy foods as adequate nutrition was first scientifically demonstrated by
François Magendie by experiments on dogs and described in his
Précis élementaire de Physiologie. He showed that only sugar,
or only olive oil, or only butter,
each led to the death of his test animals in 30 to 40 days.
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Footnote #3: Magendie, F. (1816) "Sur les propriétés nutritives des substances qui ne contiennent pas d’ azote",
Annales de Chimie (ser. 2) 3:66-77, 408–410.