<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Apr 28, 2017, at 8:17 AM, BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>They have broken ranks because they are a tiny minority opinion with</span><br><span>funding from the meat industry and drug companies.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Debunked in many places. Here's one -</span><br><span><<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/experts-headline-grabbing-editorial-on-saturated-fats-bizarre-misleading/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/experts-headline-grabbing-editorial-on-saturated-fats-bizarre-misleading/</a>></span><br><span></span><br><span>Quote:</span><br><span></span><br><span>Overall, experts dubbed the editorial, like the ones before it,</span><br><span>misleading and confusing.</span><br><span></span><br><span>“The Mediterranean diet and daily exercise can help reduce heart</span><br><span>disease risk,” said Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the</span><br><span>British Heart Foundation. “But I’m afraid the claims about saturated</span><br><span>fat made in this opinion piece are unhelpful and misleading.”</span><br><span></span><br><span>As before, health experts recommend keeping saturated fats, added</span><br><span>sugars, and sodium in check, while loading up on fruits, vegetables,</span><br><span>lean meats and protein sources, low-fat dairy, and oils. But overall,</span><br><span>people should focus on healthy eating patterns rather than individual</span><br><span>foods or meals. In other words, there's no such thing as "good" or</span><br><span>"bad" foods, just healthy or unhealthy diets. And everyone agrees that</span><br><span>exercise is beneficial to health.</span><br><span>-------------</span><br><br><span>Saturated fats are not 'poison', of course, and a small amount as part</span><br><span>of a generally healthy diet won't do much harm.</span><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I think the reason the "stay away from X" approach happens here is that it's easier for to implement. And, yeah, a generally healthy person indulging occasionally is probably not going to get heart disease or diabetes from that, but I reckon people vary on what they mean by occasionally. Is that every weekend, once a month, just on holidays? I know many people who pig out all weekend starting on Friday, then Monday morning they're back to "healthy" diet.<div><br><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>