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The new, counter intuitive idea that saturated fat is harmless or even healthy is built on lies and bad science, promoted by people with a lot of money to gain

The new, counter intuitive idea that saturated fat is harmless or even healthy is built on lies and bad science, promoted by people with a lot of money to gain if they can confuse people about this. https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-big-fat-surprise-a-critical-review-part-1/ https://thescienceofnutrition.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/the-b...

toasterlovin 8y ago
All diet recommendations are based on bad science because all nutrition science is bad science. That includes whatever your preferred diet is.
cgh 8y ago
That guy has a serious axe to grind and isn’t a credible source.
perl4ever 8y ago
But what you are responding to doesn't say "saturated fat is harmless or even healthy". It says there is little saturated fat in eggs.
- cageface 8y ago
  Eggs are very high in cholesterol, which is mentioned explicitly 136 times in the link I provided.
  - coldtea 8y ago
    Which is irrelevant, because the cholesterol we already have by other means is much much higher. Considering eggs a problem for that (their cholesterol content) is like having a program that takes 20 minutes to run, and trying to optimize a routine that only accounts for 5 seconds of the overall time.
    - cageface 8y ago
      Baseline cholesterol levels are genetically determined, it's true, but diet is far from irrelevant. A cholesterol-rich diet can easily push your overall cholesterol level above that baseline into the danger zone. This has been verified in numerous gold standard direct intervention studies. Anecdotally I have several friends that have brought high cholesterol levels down through diet far enough that they didn't have to take statins. Most of the studies that have claimed to show that diet doesn't raise cholesterol have involved populations of people that already have abnormally high cholesterol from a bad diet (i.e. the typical American). Important points summarized here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtfzd43t8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtfzd43t8o

toasterlovin 8y ago

All diet recommendations are based on bad science because all nutrition science is bad science. That includes whatever your preferred diet is.

cgh 8y ago

That guy has a serious axe to grind and isn’t a credible source.

perl4ever 8y ago

But what you are responding to doesn't say "saturated fat is harmless or even healthy". It says there is little saturated fat in eggs.

cageface 8y ago
Eggs are very high in cholesterol, which is mentioned explicitly 136 times in the link I provided.
- coldtea 8y ago
  Which is irrelevant, because the cholesterol we already have by other means is much much higher. Considering eggs a problem for that (their cholesterol content) is like having a program that takes 20 minutes to run, and trying to optimize a routine that only accounts for 5 seconds of the overall time.
  - cageface 8y ago
    Baseline cholesterol levels are genetically determined, it's true, but diet is far from irrelevant. A cholesterol-rich diet can easily push your overall cholesterol level above that baseline into the danger zone. This has been verified in numerous gold standard direct intervention studies. Anecdotally I have several friends that have brought high cholesterol levels down through diet far enough that they didn't have to take statins. Most of the studies that have claimed to show that diet doesn't raise cholesterol have involved populations of people that already have abnormally high cholesterol from a bad diet (i.e. the typical American). Important points summarized here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtfzd43t8o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBtfzd43t8o