Gary Taubes responds to the AHA presidential advisory on dietary fats

http://www.cardiobrief.org/2017/06/16/guest-post-vegetable-oils-francis-bacon-bing-crosby-and-the-american-heart-association/#comments

by onuralp • 9 years ago

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cardiobrief.org

Danihan2• 9 years ago

TL;DR

The AHA cherry-picked four poorly-conducted studies from the sixties to make their sweeping recommendation that PUFAs are substantially heart-healthier to eat versus saturated fats. Taubes goes into detail about some major biases within these four studies.

Scaevolus• 9 years ago

The link should be fixed to not point at #comments.

projectorlochsa• 9 years ago

An average US citizen eats about 3500kcal daily. Half of those calories are from fatty animal foods, half are from refined sugar.

Why is everyone demonizing fatty foods, or sugar, when that 3500 number is screaming at us from afar?!

US citizens eat way to much and move way too little. The side effect is diabetes T2, heart attacks and all sorts of issues.

US citizens also do not know how to eat, their capitalism has failed them, the whole food business is subsidized insanely. So they are "forced" to buy highly caloric foods that kills them (because that food is cheap), and foods with high nutrient to calories ratio are too expensive. Sodie pops and milk cheaper than water, meat cheaper than vegetables, insane.

astrange• 9 years ago

You can't be forced to eat too much just because food is too cheap. Get some smaller plates.

(Milk is cheaper than water?)

nategri• 9 years ago

A lot of this cheap stuff is high-margin "weaponized food" that's had thousands of man-hours thrown at it to make it addictive. Capitalism is optimizing for the wrong parameter, just like it does in just about every other situation related to human health.

arvinsim• 9 years ago

The "Fathead" movie was an informative albeit corny movie that mentioned Gary Taubes findings.

Gary Taubes responds to the AHA presidential advisory on dietary fats

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