Sat-Fat Bait And Switch

The pattern of provocations, proclamations and click-bait innuendo related to saturated fat is fairly clear to anyone who reads past the headlines. It’s entirely clear to anyone who actually reads the studies that are blithely cited, and routinely misrepresented, in a show of pseudo-erudition (look at me; I can cite a scientific paper!). Just about every missive inviting you to eat more bacon-cheeseburgers and pepperoni pizza or douse yourself with butter is a bait and switch, and those that are otherwise- are simply wrong. What do I mean? Here’s a short list of the bait that draws you in, and the inevitably divergent truth reserved for the fine print. 1) Sugar is the problem now, so saturated fat is not! I have seen innumerable commentaries propounding this position in all manner of media, yet only a vanishingly small fraction of them event hint at familiarity with the underlying scientific evidence. The mainstay, in this post-truth age of alternative facts, is predictable: blogs, citing blogs, citing blogs- in a sequence of those blind to the literature they claim to be invoking being led by those comparably blind to it, but ideologically aligned. While there are many articles that pertain here, including some that have been massively misinterpreted, and some subjected to revisionist history- the two most often invoked are meta-analyses from 2010 and 2014. Leaving aside the details that are grist for different mills on different days, what both papers showed is: ra...
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