Undoing the fat fairy-tales
Before the mid-20th century, nobody had ever thought to isolate saturated fat as the cause of disease
18 September 2019 - 05:04
Nutritional advice and nonsense are horribly intertwined. While plumes of poppycock about salt, superfoods and detoxing continue to be dispensed like so much incense wafting from a church altar, the myths around fat are probably the worst offenders.
Almost every bit of advice on the topic I read (and I’ve put triple-figure hours in), from government edicts to “wellness” sites, tells you the same thing, decade after decade. Saturated fat is a bad fat. It’s out to get you. It will raise your cholesterol; raised cholesterol will cause earlier death. ..
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