Saturated Fat: Weighed, Measured, And Found Wanting

A stunningly good, extraordinarily comprehensive paper on the health effects of saturated fat in our diets has weighed them in every relevant way, measured them with every pertinent metric, and found them wanting. There are no saturated fatty acids shown to be better than “harmless at best,” and those we consume most often and abundantly in fatty meats, processed meats, fast foods, dairy and processed dairy products are decisively worse than that. They are bad for us. Until rather recently, the idea that pepperoni pizza, ice cream, and bacon were far from good for our health would have evoked nothing beyond a yawn. We all knew that already. But the world of nutrition is stunningly good at following every action with an equal and opposite reaction, and propagating pseudo-confusion, generally because there is profit in it. Confusion is profitable for iconoclasts with conspiracy theories to sell. It is profitable for publishers, who always have the next “revolutionary” diet in the queue. It is profitable for the media, which seek to keep us unbalanced and tuning in for the next fix by comforting us when we are overly afflicted, and afflicting us when overly comfortable.  We had, presumably, grown comfortable with the notion that broccoli and beans were good for us, bacon and bratwurst, not so much. So we were due for a dizzying dose of affliction, and over recent years, we have been so served.  If you have not heard that saturated fat is “good” for us now,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news