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a bag of cool ranch doritos has 1 gram of saturated fat. saturated fat is not linked with heart disease http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS01
by jtmarmon 9y ago
a bag of cool ranch doritos has 1 gram of saturated fat. saturated fat is not linked with heart disease
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2817%2932252-3/fulltext?ex_cid=SigDig http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
Total fat and saturated and unsaturated fats were not significantly associated with risk of myocardial infarction or cardiovascular disease mortality.
- andrewflnr 9y agoRather the opposite, in fact, which is kind of hilarious to me. > Intake of total fat and each type of fat was associated with lower risk of total mortality...
- jtmarmon 9y agoIt is hilarious, although I left it the lower risk of all type mortality since OP was specifically talking about saturated fat being linked to heart disease. But yes people should probably eat less pasta and more steak
- KitDuncan 9y agoYeah. Lets all go on a Keto diet and sustain 400 million americans on steak. Do you people ever stop and think about the consequences of your diet?
- michaelhoney 9y agoI think it’s the number of people which is the problem. Also, there are not 400m Americans. Yet.
- maloney 9y agoKeto is a high fat diet not a high protien diet. Replace "keto" with "Atkin's" and I have no issue with your comment, in fact i would agree.
- Cheezmeister 9y agoFunny, if you flip to any recent thread about climate change, you're likely to come across someone advocating less steak and more pasta. Why? Producing meat is incredibly resource-intensive; cows are the biggest offenders. They literally shit greenhouse gas. Which is not to say I don't enjoy a nice juicy cheezburger. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
- maxerickson 9y ago1 gram per serving. Most of their packages contain multiple servings. Even the smaller packages that you usually see on the shelf are 3 servings, at least in the US.
- log_base_login 9y agoThe fun size bags have one serving, but even so I doubt that doritos, en masse, are to blame for obesity. It's the accompanying sedentary lifestyle that is the real culprit. If we want a food source to blame, look at high sugar content foods like soda or the slew of 'Little Debbie' type snacks (I'm preferential to Nutter Butters) that can be consumed in one or two sittings if you aren't calorie conscious. But, just to reiterate what's important, if we all just got a solid hour of exercise each day the rate of cancer and heart disease would drop appreciably.
- matwood 9y ago> if we all just got a solid hour of exercise each day the rate of cancer and heart disease would drop appreciably. But people really want a magic bullet, "X is bad, Y is good". People generally do not like to exercise so they'll keep looking for something else.
- novia 9y agoConversely, junk food companies love to shift the blame to the consumers not getting enough exercise.
- mattnewton 9y agoI don’t disagree that the sedantary lifestyle is the primary cause. However the processed food industry is a dangerous trap; Doritos and their ilk are almost as dangerous as those other sugary snacks, they are just a different kind of addictive, using fats, salt and MSG instead of sugar http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/01/dining/nacho-graphic.html?=ref=dining http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/01/dining/nacho-g...
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