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I must not have gotten that far in the article. But I seriously find that hard to believe. I recognize that eating a diet rich in saturated fat and very low i
by dsrguru 15y ago
I must not have gotten that far in the article. But I seriously find that hard to believe. I recognize that eating a diet rich in saturated fat and very low in other calories would facilitate weight loss, but that saturated fat increasing the risk of heart disease and the like has not been demonstrated outside of studies that incorrectly assumed causation, and that such a diet is likely healthful goes so far against my intuition and observation of almost everyone I've ever interacted with (including many people whose lifestyle decisions were otherwise relatively health-promoting) that I'll need to see evidence to the contrary in order to replace this hypothesis as my dominant theory. And my intuition has almost never proven wrong. XD
- prodigal_erik 15y agoHeh. My own intuition is that we're good for roughly forty years of eating just about anything we can find. Some specific diet which consistently gets us more than that certainly hasn't been easy to identify, and I don't see why we should expect one to exist; the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis seems inconclusive so far. I say that having already reached 41…