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Isn't the role of saturated fats in cardiovascular disease being revisited/questioned nowadays? ...or did my lenses get tinted by the "carbs are poison" crowd?
by kup0 8y ago
Isn't the role of saturated fats in cardiovascular disease being revisited/questioned nowadays?
...or did my lenses get tinted by the "carbs are poison" crowd?
- leephillips 8y agoEverything in nutrition will probably always be revisited. But I think the popularity of the idea that saturated fats are just fine is due to Gary Taubes. There is a mountain of research supporting the medical consensus to strictly limit saturated fats to avoid heart attacks. Here is a good starting point that reveals Taubes' selective and plain wrong use of research reports: https://nutritionsciencefactcheck.com/2012/09/26/good-calories-bad-calories-a-critical-review/ https://nutritionsciencefactcheck.com/2012/09/26/good-calori...
- kup0 8y agoThanks. Will check this out.
- leephillips 8y agoThen, there's this, that I saw today: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111 So, who knows. I'm glad I went into physics - biology is too complicated.
- kup0 8y agoWow, yeah. Then again, who knows if the conclusions here are based on the same flawed studies Taubes references. Being a non-scientist, it is quite a fatiguing process to try to make sense of the plethora of contradictory studies. Then on top of that, it's difficult to find someone that can compile them and draw a conclusion without themselves adding bias, or worse, completely misrepresenting the data (news organizations I'm looking at you...) Yeesh.