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Do you have sources for that info? I would love to read more about how the whole saturated fat recommendation came to be widely accepted.
by jseifer 16y ago
Do you have sources for that info? I would love to read more about how the whole saturated fat recommendation came to be widely accepted.
- eavc 16y agoI'm sorry, I don't have any sources other than Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food," which I highly recommend anyway.
- cdr 16y agoSome of the claims Pollan makes are sketchy. I don't recall that passage, but I'd probably want to see a source before believing it.
- jseifer 16y agoSide note: I've seen Food, Inc but I haven't read his books. I thought it was a huge leap for him to go from talking about food and where it comes from to giving nutritional advice in Food Rules.
- ig1 16y agoHarvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating and Gary Taubes book on Calories both have two different arguments for how the current dietary advice became mainstream (and why it's wrong)
- JunkDNA 16y agoAbout 10 years ago the journal Science had a cover story review article called "The soft science of dietary fat". It's likely still behind a paywall, but that was the single best summary on this topic I have ever seen. I remember it went on at length about how the original research had been simplified by governments and policy groups because it was impractical to tell people which fats were OK.