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Everything 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
by leephillips 8y ago
Everything 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.