In article >, "Jean B." >
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> You can start he
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> http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...against-cardio
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> Note the "More Evidence" part. You are really behind the times.

Frankly, I'd rather be behind the times. When I read this "new" stuff,
sometimes it seems like I can't even finish the article before somebody
comes up with something new that supersedes it. So, I just don't pay a
lot of attention. And after a few months, they're back to the old story
again.

So, I read the article above:

"suggests a reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit"

"But saturated fats may ultimately be neutral compared with processed
carbs and sugars"

Not confidence builders. Where does it say that the previous data about
saturated fats is wrong? It doesn't, that I saw. It just says that
maybe, some other things are worse. Well, we need to watch ALL the bad
things, not just pick one.

Reminds me of the flap about sugar many years ago. It was just EVIL.
It was the cause of all the problems of the world. I'd read about
people eating a "healthy breakfast". Three eggs fried in butter, three
pieces of bacon, three slices of toast slathered with butter and three
cups of coffee with generous amounts of cream. Why was that healthy?
Note that there was no jam on the toast, nor sugar in the coffee. Those
had been eliminated, so now it was a "healthy breakfast". How did that
happen? One explanation was that advice had been given to "eliminate
sweets". So, people ate whatever they wanted, but cut out insignificant
amounts of sugar so they would have "healthy diets". But what kind of
"sweets" were really being advised against? Ice cream and pie, foods
high in saturated fats, and thus calories! The word "sweets" may not
have been intended to apply to sugar at all! If you were looking to cut
something out of your diet, mostly to control your weight, cut out the
dessert, not the vegetables. Pretty simple.

So, I read the article. As others have commented, it's not a study.
It's not an article about a study. It's a popular science article about
a scientific review of some literature.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA