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Re:The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total ... by a8da6b0c91d on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @01:11AM (#9769748)
You get enough bad ideas hiding under the aegis of "science." Some guys claim something and pretend to be more sure about it than they've right to be. Dress it up as a scientific theory and you're personally unassailable.

I happen to think the data did and still does support restricting total fat. Highly saturated fats are mostly benign, but many fatty foods also have substantial quantities of unsaturated fats that are clearly linked to health consequences. So in practice "take easy on the fatty foods" has always been not bad for blanket general advice. They are probably making a mistake with this revision.

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Re:The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total ... by adwn on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:17AM (#9770131)
> Highly saturated fats are mostly benign, but many fatty foods also have substantial quantities of unsaturated fats that are clearly linked to health consequences.

I thought it was the saturated fats that are unhealthy, and the unsaturated fats that are benign and even essential up to some amount daily?

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Re:The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total ... by GordonS on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @03:31AM (#9770180)
It's complicated :)

I've been reading a lot of papers on this subject recently, and it seems there is a complex interplay between intake of carbohydrate, saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and monounsaturated fat.

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Re:The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines: Lifting the Ban on Total ... by kazinator on Wednesday June 24, 2015 @02:02PM (#9773328)
Millions of years ago, creatures that you and I came from, through N levels of evolution, ingested saturated fat.

Today, some dickhead wants to tell me it's bad, so he can sell me "edible plastic" that introduces completely new molecules into my biology.

Try raising an infant without saturated fat. They will not thrive on skim milk or soy "milk". They need the fat stuff. Infant formula? Check the ingredients: chances are you will see coconut oil or its ilk.

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