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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by jimrandomh on Friday June 05, 2015 @03:55PM (#9667726)
The right amount of saturated fat to eat is a major controversy, and I think you're promoting incorrect beliefs here.
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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by smackfu on Saturday June 06, 2015 @08:38AM (#9670552)
It's funny how every single part of nutrition seems to be a major controversy.
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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by fweespeech on Friday June 05, 2015 @04:14PM (#9667827)
So you know better than the NHS, the people who set the guidelines in the US, etc ...?

Yes, but it exceeds the total daily allowance for the NHS, the US equivalent, etc.

There is literally no one that says "Everyone should eat 30g of saturated fat a day"

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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by douche on Friday June 05, 2015 @07:34PM (#9668858)
I don't understand the saturated fat hate. Cultures have existed that have gotten 50% or higher of their total calories from nearly pure animal fat sources. Eskimos (or is the politically correct term Inuit or something else now?) lived on blubber, and only started experiencing the whole heart disease/obesity epidemic when switched to a more "conventional" grain-heavy diet.

I wouldn't trust the USDA to tell me what to eat as far as I can throw them and all of their agriculture lobbyists. RDA's are a joke.

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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by fweespeech on Friday June 05, 2015 @09:45PM (#9669243)
...you mean the people that lived 10+ years less than everyone else, even in the modern era? That is the lifestyle you want to emulate?

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/12/18/inuit_life_exp...

Okay. Enjoy.

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Re:How Soylent Ships a Trillion Calories per Month by douche on Friday June 05, 2015 @11:03PM (#9669447)
Did you even read the article that you linked? It's not a great article, but the reasons listed therein have nothing to do with diet.
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