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High fat diets can cause heart disease. Please stop promoting brogrammer fad diets.

• bayesian_horse 5y ago
  That's been debunked in the past few decades. Originally this idea came from very limited data on heart disease. Now the picture is almost the opposite. It's not a "fad". Insulin resistance is a very basic physiological mechanism at the root of both obesity and various illnesses. There are scientifically proven ways to reduce that insulin resistance. And low-carb diets have been very successful in comparison studies...
  • mastrsushi 5y ago
    "debunked" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235018/
    • bayesian_horse 5y ago
      That's from 1992, way before the "cholestorol" story got rewritten.